What a glorious tune. For me it always conjures up a balmy night holding aloft a warm cider in a field with like-minded souls. My first live experience of The National was at ...

Had to resist the urge to include one of their more impenetrable numbers. Hoppípolla is overplayed and overused in TV soundtracks for sure, but is still a gloriously uplifting piece. I love the ...

Mimi Parker sadly slipped away from cancer yesterday, aged just 55.  I heard the news this afternoon and though I didn’t know her, it felt quite a shock. Watching Low perform live was ...

I had a big love affair with Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Released in 1990, there was something about it that was fresh and slightly different to other jangle pop records around at the ...

Seminal nineties psychedelic folk, experimental shambolic electronic four piece, The Beta Band, are up there with some of the coolest bands in history. Everyone wanted to be them, or at least be seen ...