Spirit – Beyonce
It’s always darkest before dawn, right before the sun rises, right before a new day begins…
Fight The Fire – Turkuaz
Hip track alert from the latest Turkuaz album. Fight The Fire is the last song on the record but it’s absolutely worth sticking around for. It has a great symmetrical blend of feel-good but no-nonsense weight to it…
Welcome Back (Theme Song from Welcome Back, Kotter) – John Sebastian
Some songs have an inherently nostalgic sound. John Sebastian’s “Welcome Back” is one of those songs. When we listen to it now it brings back golden childhood memories and memories of simpler times…
Love Rollercoaster – Ohio Players
What do you get when you bury a high-pitched scream in a song using an amusement park ride as a metaphor for the thrill of sex? You get Ohio Players’ “Love Rollercoaster,” along with a shitload of urban legend…
The Widow – The Mars Volta
I still remember the time I discovered The Mars Volta, I was watching an MTV Latin American awards show and they were introduced by Zack de la Rocha, I remember his words were profound and exciting…
Glad to Be Gay – Tom Robinson Band
In the week of Valentine’s Day 1978, an anthemic and yet shocking protest song on a 4-track live EP sneaked under the radar to become a Top 20 hit in Britain. It was a song in which The Tom Robinson Band shamed a nation with a first-hand account of the abject indignity of being gay in 1970s Britain…
What’s Up? – 4 Non Blondes
As we enter a new decade, waiting to hear what 2020 brings us musically, we are given an opportunity to reminisce on some of the great songs that served as our life’s soundtrack to this point…
Nutbush City Limits – Black Diamond Heavies
I’m sure everyone know’s this week’s track…
Friday Night – Higo
Friday Night is an Afrobeat song by Nigerian producer Higo. It is the first official release by the producer. The vibe of this song is directly linked to the title of the song ‘Friday Night’…
5 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started My Music Career
We live in a truly unique time to be musicians. The internet has so dramatically altered the landscape that those who dominated the horizon as recently as a decade ago barely recognise it anymore. I cut my teeth on the music scene back when the social utility of the internet was barely more than a few MySpace pages and MSN screen names, and it was common knowledge that the only way to ‘make it’ in this business was to land a major record deal. To put it simply, it was the kind of pursuit that was regarded as little more than an airy pipe dream, and to believe otherwise was to be very foolish indeed…
Another Time Lover – Kadhja Bonet
When a shooting star darts across the night time sky, and you happen to be with a group of others, chances are that someone in the group will yell to everyone to look up in the sky to catch a glimpse of the star across the sky…
Bury Me – Easy Comes Home
In September 1979, I arrived for my first day of middle school, which was a big deal—a big transition from primary school at the time. I arrived and all I heard around the halls from the older kids was that disco was dead….