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A new video from the great CARSON McHONE just ahead of her UK/EU tour Carson McHone on ‘Wake You Well’: “I have taken a ship across the Atlantic five times now — each crossing is seven days at sea. It’s hard to look at water — big water — without considering the self and […] The post Carson McHone ‘Wake You Well’ video premiere first appeared on .
We’re very excited to be media partners with the truly unique online streaming platform and download store Qobuz. This month, the 33rd of our monthly bespoke playlists, takes a broad sweep at the music made in 1976 Play here or use the scrollable frame with track list below. You can sign up for a free […] The post Exclusive Qobuz Playlist #33: Everyone Loves The Sunshine first appeared on .
“I was a teenage werewolf,” sang Lux Interior of THE CRAMPS on their 1980 debut Songs The Lord Taught Us. “I was a teenage Cramps fan,” says Henry Rollins, who, as the band’s archivist, has helped oversee the first “new” material from the band in over 20 years in the shape of Gravest Gravy, featuring […] The post Shindig! Issue #178 – The Cramps first appeared on .
Sick songs, skiffle and self-sabotage: THE DOWNLINERS SECT waived the rules of British R&B over a remarkable ’60s catalogue that continues to influence vigilante R&B heads to this day. HUW THOMAS gets a handle on the gentleman ravers with sect appeal By the time they released the Nite In Gt. Newport Street EP in early […] The post Shindig! Issue #178 – The Downliners Sect first appeared on .
“Fuck wasting time, fuck depression – let’s just go and do this album the best we can and do it fast and hard and have a lot of fun while doing it,” enthuses GRAVEYARD’s Truls Mörck. Since emerging from Gothenburg in 2006, the band have infused their bluesy rock with monolithic Sabbath-style riffs, anthemic choruses, […] The post Shindig! Issue #178 – Graveyard first appeared on .
From folk and prog to garage-punk. This Soho Radio show has it all, Shindig! style Track List Basil Kirchin ‘Through New Territory’ Sairie ‘Beneath The Spreading Tree’ The Incredible String Band ‘Maker Of Islands’ Van der Graaf Generator ‘Refugees’ Diabolus ’Night Clouded Moon’ Celeste ‘Principle Di Giorno’ Camel ’Spirit Of The Water’ Robert Lester Folsom […] The post The Shindig! Broadcast #155…
JON ‘MOJO’ MILLS goes it alone with one long mix covering a lot of ground. Track list The Cool ‘Highway Song’ Jade Warrior ‘A Prenormal Day At Brighton’ Love Affair ‘Speak Of Peace, Sing Of Joy’ Gravy Train ‘Can Anybody Hear Me’ Fuzzy Duck ‘Just Look Around You’ Tucky Buzzard ‘Time Will Be Your Doctor’ […] The post The Shindig! Transmission #11 first appeared on .
On the 53rd anniversary of THE NEW YORK DOLLS’ influential debut, TIM STEGALL revisits the moment when Manhattan’s walking personality crisis became punk’s recruitment poster by lookin’ fine on television… on two continents. “Mock-rock” indeed! When they trooped into West London’s BBC Television Centre on the afternoon of 26th November, the Dolls were hardly looking […] The post Shindig! Issue…
New York journeymen THE TOKENS rose to fame in 1961 with a couple of oldies staples, before forging a unique path that saw them establish their own record label and publishing company and write and produce dozens of hits and misses, only to see the artistic outpouring of Intercourse – an album born from depression, […] The post Shindig! Issue #177 – The Tokens first appeared on .
With a set of emotionally rich songs painstakingly refined over five long years and dramatically magnified by Ken Scott’s fastidious production, SUPERTRAMP’s Crime Of The Century remains one of the iconic albums of the mid-70s. MICHAEL BJÖRN traces the slow gestation of Supertramp and their winding path to success with the help of saxophonist John […] The post Shindig! Issue #177 – Supertramp…
