Ken Downie, founding member of British electronic group The Black Dog, has died. The group helped pioneer the “home-listening” aesthetic in techno music. FIve-Song Peel Session of The Black Dog recorded December 12, 1994. Length: 31:49. #RIPKenDownie m.youtube.com/watch?v=boTx...

English singer-songwriter and slide guitarist Chris Rea has died at 74. While more celebrated in his homeland and even having a popular Christmas song, Rea may be best known in North America for his 1978 hit “Fool (If You Think It’s Over)”. #RIPChrisRea m.youtube.com/watch?v=LqUN...

Night Paths (1988) by Irish abstract artist Anne Madden (1932-2025) #RIPAnneMadden

The Mick Abrahams Band performing “Greyhound Bus” live on Beat Club in 1971. From that years self-titled album . #RIPMickAbrahams m.youtube.com/watch?v=6tm_...

Polish jazz violinist and saxophonist Michal Urbaniak has died at 82. Over his long career, he played with artists such as Chick Corea, Mikes Davis, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report. Urbaniak live in Oslo in 1972. Length: 38:59. #RIPMichalUrbaniak m.youtube.com/watch?v=3oD3...

Lucinda Williams performs "I Just Wanted to See You So Bad" live on Austin City Limits in 1989. Opening cut from her excellent, self-titled 1988 album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OiOe...

The Stone Roses perform "She Bangs the Drums" live in Blackpool in December 1989. The second single from the band's acclaimed self-titled debut album. Reached #34 on the UK charts, their first Top 40 single. m.youtube.com/watch?v=VEOE...

Liverpool new wave band The Icicle works performing "When It All Comes Down" live on Old Grey Whistle Test in 1985. Song on the band's Seven Singles Deep anthology. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc7P...

A 2015 Australian documentary focusing on the history behind the 1977 debut album of punk rock band The Saints - (I'm) Stranded. Length: 52:03. #PunkRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=7AZ9...

1970 recording of the song "Out-Bloody-Rageous" by Soft Machine. Lyn Dobson guesting with the band on sax. Recorded live in Paris. On the group 3-disc set France Facelift & Holland. Length: 15:12. m.youtube.com/watch?v=osxA...

Mick Abrahams, the original Jethro Tull guitarist who left the group and formed the British blues-rock band Blodwyn Pig, has died at 82. Blodwyn Pig performing “Modern Alchemist” live on Beat Club in 1969. #RIPMickAbrahams #BluesRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqV-...

Four-Song Peel Session of Siouxsie & the Banshees from November 29, 1977. Length: 12:04. #PostPunk m.youtube.com/watch?v=WBxY...

1986 song “Breath” by Scottish duo Vazz. The pair’s sound borrowed from genres such as cold wave, dream pop and post-punk. Can be found in their mini-album Your Lungs and Your Tongues. #Coldwave #PostPunk m.youtube.com/watch?v=dwYm...

7-inch single version of the 1980 reggae tune “African Queen” by Errol Campbell + dub. Produced by Dennis Bovell. On the V/A Bovell production anthology Different - The Singles Collection 1977-1981. #Reggae m.youtube.com/watch?v=C3mU...

Throwing Muses performing “Drugstore Drastic” live in Copenhagen in May 2025. Song from the alternative rock veterans’ latest album Midnight Concessions. m.youtube.com/watch?v=7NMo...

Late progressive country artist Joe Ely performing "Hard Livin'" live at Farm Aid in 1986. Sax played by late Rolling Stones session man Bobby Keys. Song on Ely's 1981 album Musta Notta Gotta Lotta. #RIPJoeEly m.youtube.com/watch?v=hojy...

Full set of jazz quartet with pianist Cedar Walton and saxophonist Clifford Jordan live in Oslo, Norway in July 1975. Interview footage also. Length: 41:01. #Jazz #JazzMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Eq...

Ian & Sylvia performing the Bob Dylan/Richard Manuel song “Tears of Rage” live in 1970. m.youtube.com/watch?v=3JyD...

The Cure playing "The Top" live in a 1984 Munich concert. Title track to their 1984 album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Wv...

Lou Reed may have never had a better backing band in his solo career than when accompanied by Robert Quine, Fernando Saunders and Fred Maher in the mid 1980s. The foursome performing "Sweet Jane" live in a 1984 New Jersey concert. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mBni...

Mark E Smith reads a Xmas story for BBC Collective in 2007. #FallFriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZZ8...

Free Jazz outfit Art Ensemble of Chicago playing “Charlie M” at the Kongsberg Jazzfestival in 1980 . Song written by Lester Bowie and can be found on the ECM studio album Full Force. #Jazz #FreeJazz m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2LZ...

Four-Song Peel Session of English post punk band The Passions from May 7, 1980. Length: 15:26. #PostPunk m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5GA...

1974 song "I LIke You, I Don't Love You" by pub rock band Brinsley Schwarz. Written by Ian Gomm and Nick Lowe. From their final studio album The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz. #PubRock #NickLowe m.youtube.com/watch?v=AY9p...

1971 cover of The Doors song “Light My Fire” by Al Green. From the album Al Green Gets Next to You. m.youtube.com/watch?v=I0zA...

NIna SImone performs the Charles Aznavour song "Tomorrow is My Turn" live circa 1965. On album I Put a Spell on You. m.youtube.com/watch?v=DFVA...

Bob Dylan performing "Ballad of a Thin Man" live in 1966. Song from classic 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited. Covered by many including Richard Hawley, Stephen Malkmus and Laibach. Length: 6:43. m.youtube.com/watch?v=bsLk...

Full 1986 EP Conspiracy by The Jazz Butcher vs Max Eider. Includes the song “Peter Lorre” . Length: 13:20. #RIPMaxEider m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9zQ...

Sorry to hear Max Eider has died. The longtime guitarist and right hand man of The Jazz Butcher also released a solo album in 1987 called The Best Kisser in the World which developed a cult following. “My Other Life” from it. #RIPMaxEider m.youtube.com/watch?v=LPPh...

Four-Song Peel Session of Stereolab from June 28, 1992. Includes the song "John Cage Bubblegum". Length: 18:43. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1DSU...

Rare video of very early Dinosaur Jr playing live at the University of Massachusetts in 1986. Length: 19:09. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rypr...

English punk rock band The Damned performing "Psychomania" live in 1986. Closing cut on the Anything album. #PunkRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Ku...

Rockabilly's eccentric wildman Hasil Adkins performs "She Said" live at a 1986 club show. Song was covered by The Cramps (on the Off the Bone anthology). Adkins died in 2005. #Rockabilly m.youtube.com/watch?v=oyZe...

Psychic TV performing "Riot in Thee Eye ov Sky" live in a 2003 NYC concert. On album, it can be found on 1986 LP City ov Paris. m.youtube.com/watch?v=sz8Z...

Free Jazz from 1975 with Ornette Coleman performing live in Rome. James "Blood" Ulmer on guitar. Length: 14:33. #Jazz #JazzMusic #FreeJazz m.youtube.com/watch?v=FlY8...

Brazilian jazz and bossa nova composer and pianist João Donato died in 2023. Donato was known for his collaborations with prominent Brazilian musicians such as Antonio Carlos Jobim and Gal Costa. Donato live on Brazilian TV in 1975. #Jazz #BossaNova m.youtube.com/watch?v=5lbZ...

1964 recording of "Fables of Faubus" by legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus. Recorded live in Bremen, Germany in April 1964. Players include Eric Dolphy and Jaki Byard. On the 4-LP set Charles Mingus @ Bremen 1964 & 1975. Length: 34:03. #Jazz #JazzMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=YuhQ...

From Another Man in 2018, an interview with the late fashion designer Antony Price and his long, fruitful collaboration with Roxy Music. Text- Suzanne Madsen. #RIPAntonyPrice www.anothermanmag.com/life-culture...

British fashion designer and tailor Antony Price has died at 80. His designs mixed glamour and androgyny and were perfect for fusing fashion to rock music. He worked with Roxy Music & Bryan Ferry throughout their career but also Lou Reed and Duran Duran. #RIPAntonyPrice

Four-Song Peel Session of Nirvana from October 21, 1990. Includes covers of The Vaselines and The Wipers. Length: 10:50. m.youtube.com/watch?v=08Et...

2000 song “Nineteen” by Smog. Written by Bill Callahan. From the album Dongs of Sevotion. m.youtube.com/watch?v=wSR-...

Post-punk band Wire performing live on German show Rockpalast in 1979. Length: 56:26. #PostPunk m.youtube.com/watch?v=EJvZ...

Blues shouter Big Joe Turner performing "Hide and Seek" live at the University of Oregon in 1971. Song can be found on his 1971 album Texas Blues. #Blues #BluesMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=42eY...

Sorry to hear singer-songwriter Joe Ely has died at 78. He was a onetime member of acclaimed Lubbock band The Flatlanders with Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock and a figure of Austin’s progressive country-rock scene. Ely live in 1979. #RIPJoeEly m.youtube.com/watch?v=wawM...

R&B singer-songwriter Carl Carlton has died at 72. He charted in 1974 with a cover of “Everlasting Love” and hit it big seven years later with the R&B #2 “She’s a Bad Mama Jama”. Carlton singing “Everlasting Love” on The Midnight Special in 1974. #RIPCarlCarlton m.youtube.com/watch?v=4swS...

Sorry to hear of the tragic death of actor/writer/director Rob Reiner at 78. Reiner interviewed on Letterman in February 1985, with a guest vocal appearance by his longtime friend, Albert Brooks. Length: 11:44. #RIPRobReiner m.youtube.com/watch?v=S9UK...

2009 cover of Bob Dylan's "Leopard-Skin Pill Box Hat" by Beck. Off the War Child Presents Heroes compilation album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=CAGx...

The B-52's perform "Debbie" on VH1 Backyard BBQ in 1998. From their Time Capsule best-of anthology. m.youtube.com/watch?v=NemB...

British jazz pianist Django Bates and his group Beloved playing live at the Oslo Jazz Festival in 2018. Length: 1:01:38. #Jazz #JazzMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=b0jw...

Official video for 2003 song "Inertiatic ESP" by The Mars Volta. From the El Paso alternative progressive rock band's debut album Deloused in the Comatorium. m.youtube.com/watch?v=neSQ...