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Jon Savage loathed the 1976 singles chart so he’s made an album of should-have-been hits
Episode 968
Jon Savage detested the UK’s mid-‘70s hits with a vengeance, “records so bad they made you want to strangle every deejay on Radio One, especially Dav…
7 hours ago
Stevie Wonder’s masterpiece and the daft, chequered history of Ties In Rock!
Episode 967
The two-man conversational canoe paddles the rock and roll tideway, stopping off this week at …
… Van Morrison’s set-opener is Kidney Stew Blues by Ed…
23 hours ago
Why can’t brothers in bands ever get along?
Episode 966
While Mark Ellen visits his Scottish estates, David Hepworth and Alex Gold keep the home fires burning with a wide-ranging conversation, taking in:
•…
1 week, 1 day ago
Sid Griffin (#1): the Long Ryders leader laughs at the absurdity of teenage life!
Episode 965
A whole new format we’ve invented for people who’ve been guests before and were so entertaining we wanted them back. So we’ve devised some random que…
1 week, 3 days ago
An Indie Sleaze special! – up and down with the Strokes, Libertines and Arctic Monkeys
Episode 964
“Good hair, good shoes, something to say” were the requirements of Indie Sleaze whose vanguard lit up the fading music press in the first decade of t…
1 week, 6 days ago
Nicky Hopkins’ hidden genius, the Oasis film and the best songs about rain
Episode 963
This week’s news in three separate files - the Good, the Bad and the Befuddling. Which involves …
… have Oasis created their own economy?
… are stadi…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Clint Boon saw Manchester lift off twice and auditioned the young Noel Gallagher
Episode 962
Clint Boon was at the heart of “the two biggest musical revolutions of my lifetime” – as a teenager for Joy Division and Buzzcocks, and later the Sto…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Slits, a movie in waiting - “Marvel superheroes with their pants on the outside!”
Episode 961
The Slits burned very brightly – but briefly - and were gone, their bumpy and courageous tale crisply told in Zoë Howe’s updated ‘Typical Girls?’. Sh…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Shawn Colvin – songwriter, storyteller, urban cowgirl, singing waitress
Episode 960
Shawn Colvin was in the spotlight from the age of 10 playing her parents’ parties, singing in bars at college, acting off-Broadway and joining countr…
3 weeks ago
The world’s greatest radio station! & things we loved about Dolly Parton
Episode 959
Passing the conversational Dutchie 'pon the left hand side, we fire up the following …
… “speech, not music, brings people together”
… if music gets …
3 weeks, 1 day ago