X, Madness, Talk Talk, Fishbone, TMBG, Tin Machine, Talulah Gosh... here's another in a long line of bands with songs to match their mon...

Most fans would agree the band's best moment was the A-side of 'Sulk' in 1982 (OK, a few might go back even further than that), ...

More horns! First, let me come clean. I do not own the priceless piece of vinyl shown above. Man, I sure wish I did. This live take of ...

That last post on R.E.M.'s "Can't Get There From Here" got me thinking about other unlikely horn-band combinations. My fa...

Last week, JC at the (new) vinyl villain included some fine works by R.E.M. that reminded me of this obsolete 12" single from my own c...

If you haven't been sizing up the singles leading up to the release of Azure Blue's sophomore album, 'Beyond The Dreams There...

If you didn't get the "Metroland" or "Dresden" singles, here is a way to sort of make amends. OMD's new CD singl...

OK, pop fans... I'm spinning the hits today. On this side of the pond, once again, we were very late to the party. By 1983, Spandau Ball...

As you may know by now, Big Country was my "it" band from that first single, "Harvest Home" in 1982, through the release...

Can it get any better than Roddy Frame performing 'High Land, Hard Rain' in its entirety? Well, no, no it can't, but this is pr...

Today, the Wall Street Journal's "Anatomy of a Song" series calls on the surviving members of the Clash for their thoughts on ...

This is so very tempting. Just before bed last night I checked my email and found this little nugget sent from roddyframe.com. If I went al...