Jon Ewing
Playlists
Time Wounds All Heels
24 August 2023
All of us have suffered some sort of heartbreak and music puts melody and lyric to our innermost feelings and ultimately helps us to move on. Featuring artists like: • Beck • Pete Yorn • CAKE • The Strokes • The Decemberists • Florence + The Machine • Ben Folds Five • Arcade Fire • The Postal Service
The Soulful Stable
5 October 2022
Check out the musicto home page where there is a new feature, The Soulful Stable, with the latest posts by resident funk, soul, jazz and hip hop connoisseur, The Hoof.
Soulful Stable
22 September 2022
I’ve been working on a new section for the site called the Soulful Stable where you’ll find the latest posts from The Hoof all – to coin a phrase – under one hoof.
Confidence
29 July 2022
If you’re looking for it, check this out. Featuring artists like: The Dollyrots,Slunt,Nada Surf,Rainer Maria,John Grant,David Devant and His Spirit Wife,The Wild Reeds,The Sunshine Underground,Lack Of Afro,Billy Bragg,
Music to Go Solo
14 April 2021
Sometimes you need to stretch yourself, stepping outside your comfort zone to try something new just to find out what you’re capable of.
Unite and Fight – Mustard Plug
4 March 2021
A high-speed combination of punk chorus and ska verse, Mustard Plug’s singalong Unite and Fight is just one of a sensational 28 tracks on the Ska Against Racism album compiled by Bad Time Records in 2020 to raise funds for non-profit organisations working to improve education, opportunity and justice for black people in the USA and beyond. With a barrelling momentum and a repudiation of violent action, this uplifting song is a call to arms for those of us committed to disarmament.
KIDSTRIKE!- Jim Bob
8 September 2020
Celebrating the determination of “one hundred thousand teenagers” to take over the streets of London to save their future from calamity, KIDSTRIKE! by novelist and singer songwriter JB Morrison – aka Jim Bob – is taken from the UK Top 40 album Pop Up Jim Bob released in August 2020 and inspired by the real life activism of countless young activists. But the song is run through with a rueful recognition of the singer’s own fading urge to save the world.
Living for the City – Stevie Wonder
28 July 2020
Inspired in part by the fatal shooting in New York of a ten-year-old black boy by a white plain-clothes policeman, the audacious centrepiece of Stevie Wonder’s experimental 1973 album was a seven-and-a-half-minute meditation on the brutality of black America: Living for the City…
Parade – Pretty Girls Make Graves
1 June 2020
Taken from the third and final album by Seattle band Pretty Girls Make Graves in 2006, Parade is a jubilant marching song for the emancipation of the workers, a chant to the insistent and uplifting rhythm of two drum kits, brought to life by way of a long-lost 20th Century American playwright whose promising career was stymied by pernicious political paranoia…
If We’re Damned – Jess Silk
29 April 2020
Jess Silk’s unpretentious song of hope in a time of hopelessness encourages us to keep up the fight and hold onto each other “and we will mend – and we’ll get there in the end”.
Standing in the Way of Control – Gossip
17 March 2020
Bellowed out from the mighty diaphragm of singer Beth Ditto to the chugging riffs of gawky garage guitarist Nathan Howdeshell, Gossip’s Standing in the Way of Control was impossible to avoid in the UK in 2006 and 2007…
Guilty as Anyone – Declan Kennedy
25 February 2020
“I’ve been wondering what it’s like to see / This country as my property / And my inheritance as God’s decree,” sings Nashville-based singer-songwriter Declan Kennedy on his upbeat, acoustic, country-folk track Guilty as Anyone, a song about coming to terms with white privilege in contemporary America and learning how to do something useful with the knowledge…