Coming soon: Visions of Johanna (Live at Layman Drug Company) youtu.be/sWUkLF0h9gE

I fly to New Zealand in a couple of weeks to debut my SOLO ELECTRIC SHOW. I'm excited and I'm practicing every day. The core set will be similar, but the show will be VERY different to the last few acoustic tours. Ticket links and details here - www.lloydcole.com/live/

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It's Live! #Youtube #youtubevideo #musicvideo youtu.be/9Spqc1M83Bo?...

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Tom Baker during "The Talons of Weng-Chiang". #TomBaker #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge 1977 Boomtown Rats - Lookin After No 1 youtu.be/SKuPoSwnBFg?...

RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/a...

The new album The Old Works nears completion ✨️

Title track! Our “James Bond” song 😎🎬 Lush strings & French horn by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra — everything else shaken, not stirred by The Bablers 🎶🍸 🎧: orcd.co/bablers-ltft #newmusic #pop #poprock #powerpop youtu.be/UpCANiVQjC0?...

youtu.be/UJmJbkfCUSQ?... The Legal Matters' new album "Lost At Sea" is on the way! Out Feb 27 on Vinyl, CD and Streaming! Order yours today, and hear the band all over the global indie airwaves while you wait!👇 orcd.co/legalmatters... #NewAlbum #NewVinyl #IndieRock #PowerPop #GuitarPop #IndiePop 🎸

The video I shot in a snow storm for my new single You, So is up on YouTube. If you watch it and enjoy it, it can't hurt to share it or give it the old thumbs up or add it to a playlist or what have you. All I've got is you. youtu.be/4T6-5VODNNY?...

3 minutes of letting go... thehappysomethings.bandcamp.com/track/stuck-... open.spotify.com/track/5Jll26... 😃😍😎

THX @timtony.bsky.social bit of THE KINKS 👍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW8u...

And you can also buy music on @bandcamp.com even when it's not #BandcampFriday 😊 A few purchases made today by exceptional artists on wonderful labels. @thelovelybasement.bsky.social @jetstreampony.bsky.social @precrecs.bsky.social @shapeslikepeople.bsky.social @shopfiresmusic.bsky.social

@wallytbm.bsky.social @themonochromeset.bsky.social first gigs of 2026 are 2 full performances of 'Lost Weekend', with original guitarist Foz. Friday 6th March - Lost Weekend, The Deaf Institute Manchester Saturday 7th March - Lost Weekend, Mono Cafe Bar Glasgow Tkt themonochromeset.co.uk

"The Lucky Thirteen" is what I'm calling the list of my favorite albums of 2025. It's the latest post on the Pure Pop 4 Now People blog: purepop4nowpeople.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-fe...

For my show tonight on wrkc.kings.edu (7 - 9 PM ET) I'll share music by Big Oil, @themelodychamber.bsky.social, @theprettyflowers.bsky.social, @tuxisgiant.bsky.social, Snail Mail, @ratboysband.bsky.social , Gerry Stanek and 21 others. You can stream from our site, so drop on by!

Today I become a film star. Well, hardly, but the documentary based on my 2022 London theatre presentation Beatles/Evolver:62 is available from Amazon Prime, 108 minutes of surprising and engaging cultural history for the price of a coffee. In the UK the URL is www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...

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Typical @simonloverules.bsky.social: take something heart-breakingly hurtful, and turn it into something palatable. Oh Simon. I know what this means. You're a braver little toaster than I. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNmY...

Episode 12 of Fresh Ingredients is now up on Mixcloud! Click click click! Songs from some of the finest, smartest, saddest, sweetest indie popstrels in the business. Includes some lovely, doleful, jangly treats www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship...

Brand new Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Cut Worms, Voxtrot, Legal Matters, Emma Pollock, Sloan, Sunday Artist, and Black Swan Lane +Traffic, Four Tops & Buddy Holly & R.I.P. Television bassist Fred Smith, Let’s Active/Salt Collective singer/guitarist Lynn Blakey & Three Dog Night's Chuck Negron.

As promised, the second single from the forthcoming album 'The Old Works'. shopfires.bandcamp.com/track/retort...

It's definitely out in the USA tomorrow (Tuesday 10th February), fingers crossed for the UK (Prime Video). There's also a dvd/Blu-ray on the way. Let the world's greatest Beatles historian & researcher, @marklewisohn.bsky.social, guide you through the Beatles' triumphs & disasters of 1962! #Beatles

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 9 - A song that feels underrated The Grays -- "No One Can Hurt Me" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjub...

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 9 - A song that feels underrated “Perfect Blue” by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions m.youtube.com/watch?v=tkMF...

Via Ireland, it's The Evening Session with Ian Shipley on Carlow FM, and an exclusive interview with The Jack Rubies! The new album "Visions In The Bowling Alley" is out now: orcd.co/jackrubies-v... and the band tells Ian all about it, along with their backstory! Tune in:👇 www.carlowfm.com #Postpunk

The Jack Rubies (with their new album "Visions In The Bowling Alley" (out now: 👉 orcd.co/jackrubies-v...) burst through with another round of US radio adds and chart showings. Check out the whole new round of airplay, Top 10 and Top 30 placements, and more! #IndieRock #Postpunk #IndiePop 🎸

#1WordFor1Music #MusicChallenge 9 - Who “Who's Gonna Take Us Alive” by The Replacements Minneapolis❤️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=zg5U...

New SHOPFIRES single coming soon.

My favorite Doctor. @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKqD...

I hope you've all had a nice Sunday. This last track was suggested by my friend @luetgewatz.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago and it took me a while to track it down! It's great - The Red Balloon by Crockett and Jones. Not the shoemaker. Thanks for listening x x x www.discogs.com/fr/release/7...

I watched @dreamcoasterband.bsky.social play a super show in Brighton on Friday. This track was the highlight. From their recent LP Imaginary Reflections, this is 'Dancing To Your Favourite Song'. dreamcoaster.bandcamp.com/album/imagin...

A nice acoustic take on Ballboy's 'Sex Is Boring' follows, from 2001. "Take me back to your room Tie me up and strip me naked And lie me on your floor And then you'll see that sex is boring with me" Great song!

If you blinked you might have missed it, but Love, Burns uploaded a mini-LP on Friday. It was available for a day & accordingly they've made it private now. A shame as it's lovely. Currently playing a track, Northern Line, which oviously I can't link to! But this show will be up on Mixcloud tomoz.

Next up, this lovely track by Victoria is a long-standing favourite. Somewhere in the sweet spot between The Go Betweens and The Auteurs. Which is a very sweet spot indeed (though arguably that's The Servants, thinking about it) victoriatheband.bandcamp.com/album/treats...

This is a really great new track by @genevadrive3.bsky.social Such a perfectly judged piece; those keyboard sounds! That loping beat. Perfect perfect. genevadrive.bandcamp.com/album/sub-rosa

I'd be pretty happy if someone ever said that Assistant sound a bit like an English version on Lewberg. It has crossed my mind, occasionally. lewsberg.bandcamp.com/album/out-an...

That light, dubby beauty is from the new @slowcountry.bsky.social mini-LP, which is lovely as ever. Here's what I said about their previous LP in my fanzine, In The April Sun. thisisslowcountry.bandcamp.com/album/differ...

The flood of releases from Hurry Up, Gregory has, alas, come to an end with the most recent & final release on Bandcamp. Not sure what that means for other things on the Back To Somerset "label". I am deeply appreciative of what they've shared. This, currently playing on my radio show, is a beauty.

Quite a fews songs this week that could pass for Belle & Sebastian through a thick wall. I love the new LP by Queen Midas, from which this is drawn. It seems oddly below the radar on Bandcamp - can I humbly recommend it?

Currently playing my own band with no apologies! When I played Anne-Sophie this song - Sean from The Photocopies' mix of her song Overwhelming - she gasped and said "finally we have a proper upbeat song!" And we do! Thanks @thephotocopies.bsky.social! assistant.bandcamp.com/album/assist...

A song by Beat Happening now! "Coral breathing tiger Seaweed in a spiral Starfish titled spider" How do you mix deep vocals like this, team? Calvin always sounds so good. #freshingredients www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyiY...

Currenty playing the fantastic new single by @would-be-goods.bsky.social on untidyradio.com. A nymph meets a god in disguise in a garage-band take on a Greek myth. A v v good album by the band is on the way...

That last track - a beauty from The Westfield Mining Disaster - is from their LP, 'Big Ideas From Small Places'. Only a quick listen with prompt the immediate question: er, why weren't this lot huge? From 2010. thewestfieldminingdisaster.bandcamp.com/album/big-id...