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20 years old this month, still think of it as “recent” Bob. A high ranker on the Dylan-o-meter.
1969, The Hit Factory, NYC. Iggy prepares to lay down a vocal for The Stooges' debut LP. John Cale is in the producer's chair📸Glen Craig
Shout out to the extremely posh lady in SW London newsagent today complaining her copy of The Times had gone up 50p “due to socialism”. ✊🏽
Elastica back? Only counts if Justine, Donna, Annie and Justin.
Lovely stuff, but you really can’t rank perfection. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Dedicated followers of passion: the Kinks’ 40 greatest songs – ranked!
To coincide with a new exhibition in London about the Davies brothers, we rate the best of a band who brought a sociologist’s eye to hard rock, gentle pastoralia and so much in between
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Saw this tonight. My head is spinning. Another recommendation.
Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 2w agoI knew Philosophy Of The World at the Yard Theatre, Hackney Wick would be a play about The Shaggs. What I didn’t expect was the harsh noise, the blood, the calisthenics, the nudity or the SCUM Manifesto. It’s on until August 1. Recommended. www.theyardtheatre.co.uk/events/philo...
Had a chat with @seanhannam.bsky.social for Music Radar about @thecoral.bsky.social and music production. Check it out.👇🏻
Sean Hannam@seanhannam.bsky.social · last wk.Great to chat @jamesskelly.bsky.social for Music Radar about the making of 388 - the great new @thecoral.bsky.social album. We also talked about his role as a producer, his earliest memories of music and the forthcoming UK tour this autumn. #thecoral: www.musicradar.com/artists/im-r...
It’ll take some doing to come up with a better opening line to an album this year than “I Owe A Lot To A Dead Man’s Cock”! Robyn Hitchcock take a bow. His album, The Confuser, is a late career work of surreal brilliance
From RPM Publishing, the people behind the recent Sartorial 65 book, comes Pioneers Of Modernism. A new book focusing on key people in modernism, both scene-wise and in the wider sense. bit.ly/4vVpGQr
Foreign Tongues is a surprisingly enjoyable Stones album with Mick Jagger, 83 today, in incredible voice. The OG and still the benchmark in how to front a rock & roll band. 🙌🏽
No Other Choice (2025). AI displacement is the new man vs machine. However ya slice it, it’s the human cost of capitalism Park Chan-wook’s cuts into in this darkly funny but ultimately frightening tale. Lee Byung Hun and Son Yejin star.
"Too many of the books I review are about self-mangled men: libidinal scavengers, frail melancholics, bullying sneaks...right now, the example of a good life lived by a decent person feels like an unnervingly radical thing" harpers.org/archive/2026...
All She Dreamed, by Ian Penman
Alice Coltrane’s dark night of the soul
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In the digital queue for Bob Dylan tickets. Only 22,521 ahead…
Burn All the Maps to Your Body Collage made from Brooke Bond tea card, Babycham beer mat, 1960s wallpaper, 1960s Vogue, Parade & Women’s Realm magazines, acrylic marker, watercolour, felt tip pen
Ultras (2025). If ya need an antidote to FIFA’s corporate corrupt money driven version of football, this documentary is worthwhile. Hardcore fans around the world try to articulate what the game and, more importantly, their communities mean to them.
So honoured and grateful to get my zine recommended in the Guardian this week. You can still buy issue 1 and 2 from @monorailmusic.bsky.social or directly from me at brensweeney.bigcartel.com thanks x
Happy birthday to Brian Auger. Here's the first of three very cool clips of him, Julie Driscoll and The Trinity performing Season of the Witch. Watch the full 8-min recording of the song from 1968 at youtu.be/ne7CFsVufy4
