Happy birthday to Barbara Lynn. This is the coolest thing you'll see today. The full TV show is at youtu.be/-LQDXb3axJ4

This still feels very much like Spotify stealing artists’ money

Very soon

Kind of reminds me of the first verse in this version of I’m in the Mood by John Lee Hooker, who’s perhaps not primarily known for dropping gags into his songs

#NowPlaying Augustus Pablo – El Rocker’s (Pressure Sounds, 2000) #vinyl pressuresounds.bandcamp.com/album/el-roc...

#NowPlaying Gerry Mulligan – Collaborations (Verve, c.1961)

Some superb type selections here 👇

Soon

Jean-Luc SALA

🤔

Dancing at the Sunset Club, a jazz and calypso club, situated at 50 Carnaby Street - December 1951

Nice move by Lloyds having a defibrillator next to the cash point for when you check your balance after Christmas

#NowPlaying McKinley Dixon – Magic, Alive! (City Slang, 2025)

#NowPlaying Jo Kurzweg – Winterzeit – Schöne Zeit (Amiga, 1976)

I guess Christmas increases the risk of this kind of thing but kinda funny hearing a Radio 3 show end with Silent Night and the following show play another version about 15 minutes later

Right. I am officially On The Sherry

After reading The Raven a high school classmate asked if poetry existed before Edgar Allen Poe, and what did they call it?

#NowPlaying Yara Asmar – everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much (@hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com, 2025)

Anyone thinking ‘how could you possibly need a tub of mustard that big’ has clearly never tried it

Can’t tell if this is the original audio or it’s had a free improv percussion solo edited over it

Perhaps a day late but this winter solstice set from @michaeltanner.bsky.social is doing all the right things to my soul www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...

Apparently my brain/eyes have decided to start confusing ‘reminder’ with ‘reindeer’

"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."

Half Ma’am Half Brisket

#NowPlaying Ohio Players – Contradiction (Mercury, 1976)

This is genuinely fascinating; I love the drawing. The discovery that foxes have been ‘cunning’ in stories for 4½ thousand years! The cliffhanger! The multicoloured cows! Good work, Dr Jana Matuszak

Martin Green played this amazing record at last night's Stars 0n 45 event with Lawrence and Steve Furst at the Circle & Star in Hampstead. Spaghetti Junction by Friday Brown, as featured on her eponymous LP from 1971 #Birmingham71 youtu.be/9JJp12o9idI

Either 1) neo-Nazi holocaust denier, conspiracy theorist and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, named by the Anti-Defamation League as ‘perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite’, or 2) Walliams

#NowPlaying Love, Builder of Worlds – Scared for the Climate (Grime Remix) /via @jam.coop

Let me just check what time my reservation is

Július Hegyesy (1933-2018)

#NowPlaying Ambrose Akinmusire – honey from a winter stone (@nonesuch.com, 2025)

#NowPlaying Open Mike Eagle – Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (Auto Reverse Records, 2025) @mike-eagle.bsky.social

#NowPlaying Yazz Ahmed – A Paradise in the Hold (@nighttimestories.bsky.social, 2025) @yazzahmed.bsky.social

Tasty deal from one of the best in the business

Only 14 years late to this captivating Iron & Wine tiny desk performance

The best thing I’ve read about the Calibri v. TNR hullabaloo agyei.substack.com/p/another-lo...

Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950)

#NowPlaying Patricia Brennan – Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic Records, 2025)

#NowPlaying Isaiah Collier, William Hooker, William Parker – The Ancients (Eremite Records, 2025)

#NowPlaying Ikonika – SAD (@hyperdub.bsky.social, 2025) @ikonika.bsky.social

In the early noughties I had to sell a load of my records. I have a vague mental tally of how many I regret parting with, which (is relatively low but) has been ratcheted up this morning by the discovery that my copy of Star Booty by Bitch Magnet was among them 😢

Corner Clothes Shop with Mary Quant advert, photo by Middlesbrough photographer Graham Smith (b.1947).

#NowPlaying Wawali Bonané & Generation Soukouss – Bayaya www.youtube.com/watch?v=50YJ...

Anyway, in times of media consolidation, all I can say is look to your DIY creative weirdos; they/we are increasingly gonna be your only source of artisan weird shit, as opposed to pandering slop

#NowListening ‘Gillian Moore explores the role of the two Pierres – Schaeffer and Henry, and their Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète – in the development of electronic music’ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I like that his cufflinks are bigger than his watch

And where WAS he that day, hmmn?