This Can’t Be Today - A Trip Through The US Psychedelic Underground 1977-1988 is a significant examination of an important strand of America’s pre-grunge musical landscape. Out on @cherryredrecords.bsky.social. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mu...
08.03.2026 07:44 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
London-based darkwave outfit Lunar & The Deception’s debut album The Somnambulist is for the preternatural lurking within all of us. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/da...
04.03.2026 07:10 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Despite its title, @cherryredrecords.bsky.social's Steppin' Out - The Roots Of Garage Rock 1963-1965 is a primer in US pop’s varied pre-psychedelic musical landscape. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mu...
01.03.2026 07:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Danish issue of Like A Rolling Stone, 1965. With extraordinary literalist cover design. Bob Dylan is a rolling stone, rolling down an undulating slope. A marvel.
26.02.2026 14:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Gained / Lost, The Wave Pictures face the passage of time – and showcase a guitar solo or two. Out this week on @bellaunion.bsky.social. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/br...
25.02.2026 07:19 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Something amazing - shelved version of Pil’s first album resurfaces: the Public Image (First Issue) US Mix. Like a Metal Box-ised version of the UK’s Public Image (First Issue) (@pilofficial.bsky.social). I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mu...
22.02.2026 08:03 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0How brilliant.
19.02.2026 17:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, they certainly played the ABC Cinema, Edinburgh on that date.
19.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Just in! It is amazing. The best. Weighty too. Doug Hinman & Andrew Sandoval's THE KINKS – ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT The Day-By-Day Story Pt 1: 1940-1971. Get it here: beatlandbooks.com
19.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Here we go - another for your collection.
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Went to a snowy Aalborg in Denmark for Northern Winter Beat 2026. Duo Ruut, Jim Ghedi, Jenny Hval, Matching Outfits, Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Motorpsycho, Sebastian Wolff, YARD – more. Just brilliant. Wrote about it for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/no...
17.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The new @mojomagazine.bsky.social is out. On the cover, Miles Davis. Inside, me (@kierontyler.bsky.social) on Hater’s Mosquito (@haterrmusic, @fire_records).
17.02.2026 08:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CBGB - A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986 is an exhaustive, stylistically varied, 4-CD box-set memorial to the fabled Bowery venue. Out on @cherryredrecords.bsky.social. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mu...
15.02.2026 08:05 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Little Bangers From Richard Hawley's Jukebox Volume Two is a fantastic compilation from @richardhawley.bsky.social. Unreservedly recommended. Out on @acerecords.bsky.social. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/index.php/ne...
08.02.2026 07:14 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The compelling debut album from Manchester's Shaking Hand feels like a keeper & also, this early, feels like one of the albums of the year (on @melodicrecords.bsky.social through @inhousepress.bsky.social). I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/co...
04.02.2026 05:52 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Eddie and the Hot Rods are ‘a load of bozos’ said The Clash's Mick Jones. @cherryredrecords.bsky.social's 2CD Hot Rods set Teenage Depression / Life On The Line traces the thread linking pub rock and punk rock. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mu...
01.02.2026 07:50 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Jane Weaver’s The Fallen By Watch Bird is reissued for its 15th anniversary by Fire Records. Cohesive, auteur-driven, still an absolute joy. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mu...
25.01.2026 07:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Via the Memories Are Made Of Hits Volume 2 LP.
22.01.2026 21:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The finest TV ad.
22.01.2026 21:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Spellbinding Ethiopian jazz-inflected soul. Previously only on a late-70s cassette, Tilaye Gebre’s Tilaye's Saxophone With The Dahlak Band is reissued by Muzikawi (through @inhousepress.bsky.social). I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mu...
18.01.2026 07:42 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
With the careful new album Valentine, Courtney Marie Andrews takes stock of experiencing desolation. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/va...
14.01.2026 07:07 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The new @mojomagazine.bsky.social is out. On the cover, Small Faces. Inside, me (@kierontyler.bsky.social) on Lala Lala’s Heaven 2 (on @subpop.bsky.social).
13.01.2026 10:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong, the 1982 debut album from South London musical free spirits and great British musical institution Woo is reissued by @i-p-r.bsky.social. It’s quite something. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mu...
11.01.2026 07:53 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Went to see The Fire Doors - ace tribute to The Doors - at Camden’s Dublin Castle. Played straight, nothing arch, those on stage obviously having a blast. Amazing experience. @fieldmusic.bsky.social. Wrote about it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/fi...
05.01.2026 17:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A vital package, the 10-CD set Live & Sessions 1963-1969 tracks The Rolling Stones in real time from the R&B cover band to the white-light innovators of 1965 and 1966. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mu...
04.01.2026 08:15 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Buys Of The Year: 17. The final one, though there could be more. 1965 & 1966 pressings: the first two Sonics' LPs - Here Are... and Boom. Fantastic band, fantastic records.
31.12.2025 11:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Buys Of The Year: 16. Double-sider of 1966 Texas punk frenzy - Zakary Thaks' Bad Girl / I Need You. First reached the wider world via 1979's Pebbles 2. Bad Girl: youtube.com/watch?v=nLWf...
30.12.2025 14:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Buys Of The Year: 15. Jan 1964. George Bean's Will You Be My Lover Tonight? / It Should Be You. Hugely weak two-sider of ALO-produced non-Stones Jagger / Richards songs. Anyone really think this was a goer? Still, Mr Bean did go on to Privilege. Here: youtube.com/watch?v=i0O4...
29.12.2025 10:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking back at 2025’s Music Reissues. Yeah Man It's Bloody Heavy!!, Sly and the Family Stone, John McKay, Johnnie Taylor, Chip Shop Pop. @rockingbob.bsky.social, @tinyglobalmusic.bsky.social,
@acerecords.bsky.social. On @theartsdesk.bsky.social today: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/be...
Buys Of The Year: 14. The Flat Earth Society's Waleeco - Boston, 1968. Only available by collecting vouchers from Waleeco chocolate bars, and then buying by mail order. Such a tremendous, accomplished record. No weak moments, no follow up. Total non-sequiteur. Here: youtube.com/watch?v=nSvd...
27.12.2025 16:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0