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Bob Dylan Goes Punk on Late Night with David Letterman, Playing “Jokerman” with the Latino Punk Band, the Plugz (1984) Listen to Bob Dylan's studio albums all you like; you don't know his music until you hear the live versions. That, at least, is the conclusion at which I've arrived after spending the better part of t...

Bob Dylan Goes Punk on Late Night with David Letterman, Playing “Jokerman” with the Latino Punk Band, the Plugz (1984)

YouTube video by KEXP Merchandise - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

What the hell happened to Merchandise. Self-sabotaging from the start but one of the best festival sets I've seen and with an album called 'A Corpse Wired For Sound' they should have been contenders.

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Front cover, Flying High/ Gene Clark (1998)

Track listing Flying High/ Gene Clark (1998)

Discography Flying High/ Gene Clark (1998)

Gene Clark.

Sid Griffin’s 41-track epic compilation remains the pre-eminent primer to Gene Clark. Lovingly curated, from You Showed Me to Tambourine Man

Z- My Morning Jacket

Easily one of the best live outfits on the planet, My Morning Jacket’s finest album has got the 20th birthday treatment. John Leckie produced it and this edition grabs by the throat.

Bossing it! The makers of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere on turning Jeremy Allen White into the rock icon Springsteen’s 1982 lo-fi album Nebraska was recorded when the singer was battling with depression – but about to become a superstar. Now that pivotal period has been brought to the screen – with The B...

Who knows, the back story and the living myths surrounding this strange, career-defying LP might prove more interesting than the movie but if it's half as compelling as the book it's based on (or The Bear) then I'm not complaining.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Hugh Padgham: working with XTC - xtclimelight.com Hugh Padgham remembers his work on XTC's Drums & Wires, Black Sea and English Settlement, plus Brian Wilson, the Police, Phil Colins, Split Enz etc

In this month’s episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast we return to the 2025 XTC Fan Festival to hear engineer and producer Hugh Padgham remembering his work on Drums and Wires, Black Sea and English Settlement. Now sponsored by @burningshed.com
www.xtclimelight.com/2025/10/03/h...

YouTube video by GreatGuitarHeroes NILS LOFGREN - Keith Don't Go (1976 O.G.W.T. UK TV Appearance) ~ HIGH QUALITY HQ ~

Still worth it

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The Saints - Empires (Sometimes We Fall) - Eats, Drinks & Leaves Aussie proto-punks The Saints release the final song recorded by singer Chris Bailey before his death in April 2019.

www.eatsdrinksandleaves.com/the-saints-e...

YouTube video by The Avett Brothers AVTT/PTTN, The Avett Brothers, Mike Patton - Eternal Love (Official Music Video)

Mike Patton and the Avett Bros isn't a collaboration I'd have predicted.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jk3...

Memory Palace by Paul Haig & Billy Mackenzie album cover

"Following Billy’s death in 1997, Paul Haig (#JosefK) put together the album 'Memory Palace' from the demos which they had recorded together"

@pangurdubh3.bsky.social picks 10 tracks from the ‘solo’ albums of #BillyMackenzie

www.toppermost.co.uk/mackenzie-bi...

From memory, though, I was adjacent to the pig’s head. They hated students, which was the point we began to cower

I never saw that, and it definitely wasn’t me

I was at Angelic Upstarts. Hitched from Newcastle where I was a student. To this day it was the most frightening gig I’ve ever been to, plus we had to kip down at Carlisle station after missing the last train. Happy days!

‘The man who came to read the metre’: Yorkshire poet Tony Harrison was the National Theatre bard Harrison, who has died aged 88, wrote copiously for the stage, both as an ingenious translator and dazzlingly original dramatist

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

It’s an incredible story. The only churches left standing were the two adjacent to where the Nazi command were based.

Warsaw old town

Warsaw old town

Warsaw old town

Warsaw old town

A beautiful morning in Warsaw. A food tour and plenty of WWII stuff lined up later and tomorrow

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This may seem a bit wacky but insomnia periodically plagued me and has significantly improved since I started paying attention to my dreams

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Mine's disconnected again! A good job I barely use it

It takes two: the best pop duets – ranked! As Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue’s Where the Wild Roses Grow turns 30, we count down pop’s finest two-handers, from career-revivers to celebrity meta-texts

As I was scolling I was thinking 'this will never get in' - and there it is a No.1

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

YouTube video by Beggars Banquet Records The Blue Aeroplanes - Broken & Mended HD

Just because there's never enough Blue Aeroplanes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dcC...

I think you do

Drums and Wires - XTC. CD/ Blu-ray 2025 Dolby Atmos mixes

New edition of Drums and Wires day
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Don't let Gedge here that! ('heritage')

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco (2001)

The more this incredible album ages, the more it eerily echoes universal themes that, in 2001, appeared to be overly solemn…but now…

I would like to salute
The ashes of American flags
And all the fallen leaves
Filling up shopping bags

XTC - Apple Venus.

YouTube video by Midlake Midlake - "Days Gone By" (Official Music Video)

It's great to have new music from Midlake, still occupying that what if The Band met Jethro Tull niche

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9CV...

My Jungian therapist might suggest that you're being prompted to consider new ways of navigating life with qualities you've hitherto, perhaps, under utilised.

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Give this a go and make friends with the unconscious!

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I do love a Pearl Jam ballad.