Of all the celebrities of the last 100 years, FH has got to be the only one who has been the subject of literally zero unflattering photos

Read Grant's article, if only to marvel at this incredible photo of Astrid Kirchherr standing at the front of the queue to the Cavern in 1964, a year after The Beatles had left Liverpool and two years after her boyfriend, Stuart Sutcliffe had died.

'Dr Who death threat to bairns'. The British Safety Council weren't happy with Planet of the Daleks (Aberdeen Evening Express, 9th April 1973)

Rabid hurdy-gurdy, murky DIY sounds from Canada, a shahi baaja and a Javanese kentongan in this month's playlist from the zone. Rum Music for April Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan buff.ly/imlOAGs

One of the very best from Clickhole

“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.

Underrated gem which enters my head every month or so without fail

Great record

Thinking about Wild Zero AGAIN!?

Don't let the fact that my fizzog is clearly visible in the front row put you off here

HBD SWOD - nice to see this love letter I originally wrote in 2016 to one of the most epochal slabs of steel doing the rounds. Came out the same day as Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak, for shame!

Still the pinnacle of The Onion's achievements, their Master Of Puppets if you will.

Epochal late '90s moment

What a lifelong bullshitter. So a year before it was released, then?

The Facebook AI prompts are hilariously hopeless. When considering Bill Orcutt, is anyone's first question 'What is his net worth??'

People want Alex Garland and Paul Thomas Anderson to be able to explain things but their failure is that they’re kind of smart. If you want to explain 2026 you needed to give 200 cans of Mountain Dew to Uwe Boll in 2007 and instruct him to direct an adaptation of Catch 22 but not to read it first

RIP Len Deighton, author and illustrator of LEN DEIGHTON’S ACTION COOK BOOK and other works

So many tiny bejeweled moments nestled within this Fabergé egg of a performance. Tom Jones as an L7 Robert Plant. David Crosby looking at Jones like he’s in love. An anxious Stephen Stills giving 110%. Neil Young having a minor epileptic convulsion. Are you not entertained? youtu.be/dIDzA0YDso8?...

Simply Saucer - Dance the Mutation [Canada, Proto-punk] (1989) Dance the Mutation https://redd.it/1ro8kda https://youtu.be/zdV6WBSzWNM

Dylan in Don’t Look Back (Age 14) - drop-dead cool acid-tongued iconoclast (Age 40) - unbearable petulant bell-end. Get over yourself Bob FFS

Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)

Blimey!

imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?

Six years since we lost the Guvnor. Weatherall was a bit of a genius. He used to come into the record shop I worked in back in the day and hang out at the counter listening to the white labels and shooting the breeze and I can confirm that he was a lovely bloke too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUYr...

Back to this banger

Gazza

Harry Sword explores the world of the cult London shop and record label – a vital imprint for adventurous leftfield heavy metal – offering ten entry points into one of the most beguiling and bewitching catalogues out there The Strange World Of… Crypt of the Wizard buff.ly/jjYVJOC

A great read on gay porn soundtracks, the work of the amazing Dark Entries label on resurfacing this important part of queer history, and a creative world destroyed by AIDS: “We lost so many friends, and it did something to us." www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

I absolutely love this record shop, so it was a pleasure to present the MAXIMUM POWER of THE SWORD versus THE WIZARD on the Quietus today. Dare ye enter the crypt?

Well this is news to me, but you can’t fault the veracity of Google AI or its savvy investors

Raging Slab fans take note (c'mon, I know you're out there)

Like @stephenhanley6.bsky.social s THE BIG MIDWEEK - you don’t even have to like music to devour this masterpiece. If you haven’t already… buy it… read it. 💥👑

C’mon let’s work! C’mon let’s work it to the bone! We’re hitting 2026 with vim and vigour, and back down the rehearsal room hammering out new jams for a bunch of shows in the next few months. (1/4)

Can confirm this did take place, and moreover received a stern telling off from KR immediately afterwards

Don't have to try too hard to do this game as our first album launch was literally with Big Naturals

“More of a comment than a qu—“ *shot rings out*

Thanks to everyone that bought tickets for @bugpressure.bsky.social at Corsica Studios in March. That's now SOLD OUT. Last tickets for Holy Tongue, @teethofthesea.bsky.social & Pharaoh Overlord. dice.fm/bundles/cors...

Was there, and can attest this will doubtless be the greatest live album ever involving a hurdy-gurdy player who by the end of the set had drunk so much neat gin he couldn’t stand up.

My fave Snub TV moment remains the archetypally British moment where Pussy Galore's louche NYC cool is interrupted by a pissy Student Grant style ENTS manager telling them they have to get out of the dressing room in 5 minutes -4:31 here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpYv...

Guardian liveblog from the Oscar nominations, today in 2015. Eleven years on this remains a Typo World Record.

Two (2) high profile TV shows have now used The Prodigy’s Firestarter in a club scene in the last 12 months. Music supervisors acknowledge the last 30 years challenge.

And now for something different: Lady Sylvia Marsh from one of my faves, Lair of the White Worm !! 🐉 #artsky #lairofthewhiteworm #horror

❝𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗺 𝗜? 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟬.❞‬ Grey Gardens, 1975

Nuts in May on BBC FOUR tonight.

Hawkwind photo archivist Pedro Bellavista has posted some excellent pics from the band's BBC Maida Vale session for the Johnny Walker Show, where they recorded versions of Silver Machine and Brainstorm (02/08/72). Here's a selection...

Quite extraordinary tangle of handbags here

The reckoning will come eventually that the vast majority of us actively *loathe* the AI that's now constantly up in our grill. Moreover the only FOMO relating to these sites originally was from our peer groups.

Daft Punk’s ‘Teachers’ loop starts…