#BestSongHeardToday This Is Ska: Double Trouble & Rebel MC ft. Blackout JA & Kaya Fyah (2025) Over three and a half decades since Just Keep Rockin' and Street Tuff, the reunion we didn't know we wanted, but need oh so much. Brilliant. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/retu...

A stunning opening to Billy Nomates' UK tour on Wednesday with a hometown gig at Electric in Bristol. Tor and the band on spectacular form. Fantastic support from Emily Sadler aka @cirquemily too. Get to an upcoming show if you can, and get there early! dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/nobo...

A new 60-minute Dubhed selection of deep longform cuts by #MarcAlmond, including all 17 minutes of Split Lip from 1984, plus Jarvis, Jethro, Julie and Suraya. I've also polished up three archive selections of Marc magic and put them back on display. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-dr...

Time to party like it's 2010 with a 45-minute Dubhed selection of remixes by Dayve Hawk aka Memory Tapes and Weird Tapes. Crystal Castles, Datarock, Demon, Fixers, Midnight Juggernauts, Tame Impala, Tanlines, Thunderheist, Wolf Gang and Yeasayer go Glo-Fi! dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/spoo...

YT is crammed with crap, but dig and you will find gold. Four mindblowingly brilliant live performances from four iconic artists at four different festivals. Sly & The Family Stone, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard and Nina Simone. Wow. Just wow. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/nine...

Hometown gig to kick off the tour, #BillyNomates and band smashed it. Sometimes all you need is bass, drums and a bloody brilliant voice. And a set packed with great songs. Legend 💕

When this is the support act, you just know you’re going to be in for a memorable night…

Doldrum Days follows hot on the heels of Miki Berenyi Trio's debut album Tripla and it's eix and a half minutes of sheer bliss. I could (and will) listen to this all day. @mikiberenyi.bsky.social, Kevin 'Moose' McKillop and Oliver Cherer are creating magic. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Loving Get Over It, the latest single and video from #Georgia though, to be honest, I've loved everything she's released to date. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/i-co...

Happy birthday to Andrea Boccelli, Billie Piper, David Coverdale, Doug Wimbish, Joan Jett, Richard Fairbrass (Right Said Fred), Toni Basil, Vudi (American Music Club) and Nick Cave. What a party that would be! dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/happ...

Celebrating Keith McIvor with (almost) 90 minutes of JD Twitch and Optimo remixes featuring Boris, Cold Cave, David Shaw & The Beat, K-X-P, Mark Stewart, Mount Florida, Primal Scream, Róisín Murphy, Severed Heads and The Shortwave Set. Thank you, Keith 👏 💔 dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/opti...

Heartbreaking news that Keith McIvor aka JD Twitch aka one half of Optimo, has passed aged 57. So much good music to choose from. For now, this one. RIP Keith, and thoughts & best wishes to his family, friends and loved ones. youtu.be/BseRSUPPMWk

An hour of Joseph Watt/Razormaid edits, featuring Bronski Beat, Depeche Mode, Electronic, Erasure, Joseph Watt, O.M.D., Razormaid, Sparks, Talking Heads and Vicious Pink Plus bonus archive Dubhed selections for Bert Bevans, François Kevorkian and Martyn Ware. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/watt...

Portishead back together, performing Roads for Together For Palestine. Stunning. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

A random reminder of the late Jorge Verdin aka Clorofila and co-founder of the Nortec Collective. (Re)discovering "BabyRock" Rock again prompted me to track down and buy Corridos Urbanos, the 2010 album by Clorofila. It's fantastic. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/some...

Six releases in 2025 so far and @higherloverec.bsky.social just keep delivering quality, quality, quality tunes. Andres Y Xavi, Hugo Nicolson (twice!), Jazxing and Puerto Montt City Orchestra, fab remixes of the latter including a beauty from Balearic Ultras. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/brea...

A random shuffle offered up Shouldn't Have To Be Like That by Fra Lippo Lippi from 1986. 20th century Norwegian pop from a band inspired by a poem by a 19th century English writer, in turn inspired by a 15th century Italian painter. It's not all a-ha, you know! dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/read...

A tribute to Stephen Luscombe, with some favourite Blancmange videos and a couple of hour-long Dubhed selections from the archives, focusing on their 12" singles. Rest easy, Stephen 💕 dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/wave...

Very sad news

Sunday soul with Stevie Wonder. A 48-minute Dubhed selection of deep cuts and extended work outs guaranteed to nourish your soul. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/wond...

#last4albums #Crustation #BronaghSlevin #StiffLittleFingers #KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard @lucreciadalt.bsky.social

Gutted that tonight's Misty In Roots / Pama International gig in Bristol has been postponed. Looking forward to seeing them in March 2026, but in the meantime I've posted a new Dubhed selection, with a 'side' to showcase each brilliant band. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/inte...

#BestSongHeardToday #Gorillaz and @sparksofficial.bsky.social release new albums within 12 months of each other? And collaborate on new single The Happy Dictator? Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/empt...

I've listened to Rattlesnakes by @lloydcole.bsky.social & The Commotions roughly three million times since I bought the album as a teen. It still manages to surprise and delight, forty one years on. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/its-...

#BestSongHeardToday Néené Africa by Tidiane Thiam, from the album Africa Yontii on the ever excellent @sahelsounds.bsky.social label. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/ever...

2nd Floor by The Creatures aka Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie is 27 years old in October. 27 years! To console myself, I listened to half a dozen versions in quick succession, plus the rather marvelous video. 27 years!! dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/an-e...

#NowPlaying Stereo MC's - Creation From the 1992 album Connected

Slightly diminish a book… An Overlong History Of Time

#last4albums #TheSundays @dotallison.bsky.social #RoxyMusic @jamesyorkston.bsky.social

I bought Songs For Nina And Johanna by @jamesyorkston.bsky.social on Friday and I've already lost count of the number of times I've played it since. A joy from start to finish, a wonderful set of songs performed by James with Nina Persson and Johanna Söderberg. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/ther...

A lawn Again Or #lawnpop

The Sundays? Yep, I am really that obvious. What a fabulous band they were, though. I've also reactivated an indie/jangly C90 mixtape that my girlfriend made in 1996, may wake up call to The Sundays' brilliance, amongst others. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/song...

#last4albums From punk to pop to dub in four easy steps. #Buzzcocks @bobpetesarah.bsky.social #AdrianSherwood #BigYouth

45 minutes of dubtastic tunes shaped by Adrian Sherwood, including Blur, Lee 'Scratch' Perry x Dub Syndicate, R34L & Mark Pistel, Nine Inch Nails, Panda Bear & Sonic Boom and the wonderful Shara Nelson. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-br...

I love Bandcamp Friday. My bank balance, on the other hand... @bobpetesarah.bsky.social @bugpressure.bsky.social & @ghostdubs.bsky.social @danielmarkavery.bsky.social @dotallison.bsky.social @jamesyorkston.bsky.social @sparksofficial.bsky.social dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/bag-...

@divinecomedyhq.bsky.social to the rescue, yet again. With added Ardal O'Hanlon, to seal the deal. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/rain...

A journey of discovery to @lucreciadalt.bsky.social, who has been releasing music since 2005 but I heard for the first time this year. All thanks to @davidsylvian.bsky.social, who co-produced and mixed Lucrecia's album, A Danger To Ourselves, out on Friday 5th. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/walk...

Standing On The Shore by @empireofthesun.music-social.com popped up on my music shuffle, which led me straight back to the glorious video from 2009 Just discovered that EOTS released a fourth album last summer, and a bunch of remixes this year. Time to catch up! dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

A storming lunchtime set from Horace Andy with Dub Asante Band and Matic Horns at the Lowlands Festival in The Netherlands a couple of weeks ago. And all this on an empty stomach! Legend. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/09/no-s...

Today's delve into the archives is a mixtape of The Boo Radleys that I did way back in 1997. B-sides, demos, remixes and a reminder of just how bloody brilliant this band were. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/08/thre...

The O'Jays show how it's done. A 47-minute Dubhed Selection of seven full length exemplars of the Philly Sound, aided and abetted by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff & Tom Moulton Soul that's good for the soul and the best song(s) I've heard today #BestSongHeardToday dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/08/juic...

Kenny Dope and Róisín Murphy bravely attempt a cover of Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) by Talking Heads. The original is unbeatable (though David Byrne himself had a decent go on the American Utopia tour), but the new extended version is irresistible. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/08/keep...

Inspired by the arrival of a new album, single and video from @emmapollock.bsky.social, here's a 10-song, 40-minute Dubhed selection featuring Emma solo, The Delgados and collaborations with other artists. And Bandcamp links so that you can buy, buy, buy! dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/08/sump...

In four weeks' time, the new album from @emmaspollock.bsky.social will be here. New single, Future Tree, is out today and I've posted a trio of other modern classics if you don't yet know what you're missing. emmapollock.bandcamp.com/album/beggin... dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/08/youv...

Happy birthday to Valerie Simpson, supreme songwriting legend. dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/08/soli...

Today's Dubhed selection offers up four slabs of stunning sonic satisfaction, courtesy of GLOK (Andy Bell/Ride), Rico Conning, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and the Arch Drude himself Julian Cope, with a tribute to Coil co-founder John Balance. Head on! dubhed.blogspot.com/2025/08/21st...

Happy 73rd birthday to revolutionary dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. Here's the 12" sleeve of his powerful and disturbing 1979 dub poem, Sonny's Lettah, as released on Island Records... youtu.be/DhhEfCGsYBM?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #musicsky #poetry

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