Craig McAllister

Bill Posters Will Be Prosecuted *Warning. Jazz. Turn off your mind, relax, float downstream. From Trump to the Trongate, the world right now seems hellbent on willful annihilation and pointless self-destruction. Instead of firing…

Peace Piece

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#billevans

Bella Bell(e)a “I’m beginning to think,” says a hot ‘n sweaty Stuart Murdoch, mid-way through ‘Side 1′ of If You’re Feeling Sinister, “that velour maybe wasn’…

One, two, three, fore!
Belle And Sebastian, live in Troon.

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@belleandsebastian.bsky.social

Trashcan Sinatras “The Bitter End” Official Music Video YouTube video by Trashcan Sinatras Official

‘Are they stil a thing?!?’
You betcha. Here’s yr first smash hit of ‘26. @trashcansinatras.bsky.social

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I. Am. Somebody. ‘Busboy’…’bellboy’… ‘waterboy’ …’shoeshine boy’…the reason African Americans began using ‘man’ as a full stop in conversation is there for all to see. Fed up of …

Jesse Jackson

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@johnmaherphoto.bsky.social Primary school teacher here, John. Conversation with pupil yesterday:

“Mista Callsta…d’you know the band ‘Buzzcocks’? D’you know ‘Moving Away From The Pulsebeat’?

(Walks away humming drum intro, played in the air with a couple of felt tips).

Unexpected!

Snow Way Ahm Daein That I found myself watching the Olympics the other night there. Men and women dressed head to (camel) toe in the sort of tight-fitting get up that yr average Marvel superhero might reject on grounds of…

Snowboarding in Milan

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Lily Rae Grant I was, for years, a 6 Music devotee in the morning. From the fill of the kettle in the kitchen to the resigned opening of the car door at work, there wasn’t a day between a Monday and a Frida…

Lily Rae Grant
#redlicoricerecords

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Och, I’m blushing here! Glad you’ve found MDW - a beauty, isn’t it?!

The Higher You Fly, The Harder You Fall If Screamadelica was the result of Andrew Weatherall pointing a rudderless Primal Scream (shambling, jangling Byrds copyists? Long-haired, leather-breeked faux rockers?) towards the boundary-free p…

Dove tale.

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Sly Dunbar It’s a long way from Scotland to Jamaica – about four and a half thousand miles at the last Google search – but the two small nations are inextricably linked. Thanks to mercenary …

Scotch Corner

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Damn The ‘Dan There’s a well-worn meme that does the rounds, a life truth centred on the idea that the music you listened to between teens and twenties is the stuff that comes to define you in your later y…

Amuso’d To Death

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Acutely Obtuse In this house at least, it’s very probably I Am Kurious Orange, but This Nation’s Saving Grace is often universally acknowledged as The Fall’s greatest album. It is simultaneously…

‘Lloyd Cole’s brain and face is made out of cowpat.’

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“Fru-stray-did wi-min….”

Out Of Step/Out Of Time I scanned this totally preposterous list on Substack over the festive period, where Thurston Moore lists his 350 Best Records of 2025. Yeah! – there’s no typo in there – that real…

1991 revisited

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реальный хорошо Viddy Well, Devotchkas And Malchicks, Viddy Well. That Bowie fella was a clever droog. In death he created one of his greatest pieces of art. The songs that make up Blackstar contained an outpourin…

I was going to mark the 10th anniversary of a world without David Bowie until I realised I’d written a perfectly great one a few years ago.

For anyone who missed it:

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Ha! Thanks.

Nineteen Plain Or Pan turns 19 today. One blink, and already, it’s into its final year of being a teenager, somehow mid-way through second year at University and making its own considered path in life…

Nineteen

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Hey! Thanks Graeme. Coming from you, I’ll take that. Cheers!

The Sloan Ranger I’m backstage after a Johnny Marr book event a couple of Novembers ago. There’s a strict ‘Johnny will be meeting no fans tonight’ policy in place, but I have written a book …

I can exclusively reveal…

#billysloan

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On it boss.

It’s light where you are. Pitch black in north Ayrshire. Happy Chrimbo!

A Christmas post. Oh yes it is. #bowie

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Introducing The Band A few months ago I posted about the burst of classical music that The Smiths used to signify they were taking the stage. Walk-on music, when used as effectively as The Smiths did it, is an integral…

Intro music

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A Good Start! There’s a story that Adam Horowitz tells – kinda preposterous, but totally believable (it’s the Beastie Boys, right?) – where waaaay back in the early days of the Beastie Bo…

Beastie Boys, eh, jam.

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So You’re Gonna Be A Singer, Well I’ll Be Goddamned Buddy’s Rendezvous is the name of a diner, the place where the character in Father John Misty’s song meets up with his estranged daughter after a spell in jail. It’s an entire mov…

FJM X LDR

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Wynderful I’ve been following Nia Wyn on the various social media platforms for most of this year and just last week she’s gone and released the track that I can confidently predict will sit unch…

@niawynmusic.bsky.social Nia Wyn

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Down On The West Side, Away From Sunlight As autumn snaps itself sharply into winter and the early curtains of dusk draw their way across the gun metal grey skies on the commute home, the music being listened to in the car becomes equally …

Down On The West Side, Away From The Sunlight

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Phone Scrolls, Drum Rolls I’m a sucker for a music biography (heck, I’ve written at least one) and so found myself at the Mike Joyce book event in Glasgow last week. The most bizarre thing happened before it had…

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Rickety Lou It begins with a riff as rickety as the Coney Island Cyclone, a clattering, knuckle-dusted, steel-wound nickel on wood bone-shaking rattle. Lou Reed sounds like he’s just about made it to the…

Lou Read

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There’s Not A Hope It’s an accepted truth that Electronic was very much a bit-part project, an occasional coming-together of alternative music royalty in the gaps of downtime between their respective day jobs; …

Electronic ‘Forbidden City’

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