Johnny Marr: "Spin" video

Watch the video for Spin, the lead single for Johnny Marr's new album The Age Of Everything. His signature guitar tone is in fine fettle. Hopefuls from all over the world have tried to replicate it and they all came up short.

I Helped Edward Ball Escape – A Tribute To The Times & Edward Ball

Putting together a carefully curated Edward Ball 2CD tribute I Helped Edward Ball Escape – A Tribute To The Times & Edward Ball, took many, many years. The English songwriter, singer, guitarist and keyboard player never made it big, but he is an essential artist in the power pop, post-punk and indie pop scene. He was a member of well-respected cult bands (Television Personalities, 'O' Level, Teenage Filmstars, The Times), writing subtle songs wherein melody is king. Forever being a musician's musician he has been jheld in high regard amongst the cognoscenti, who put him on the same level as Alex Chilton and Ray Davies.

The sprawling I Helped Edward Ball Escape – A Tribute To The Times & Edward Ball, three hours of reinventing his development as a writer. Stand-out tracks Last Tango For One - with quite a bit of The Beatles classic Eleanor Rigby, the good-natured stabs at Oasis singer Liam Gallagher Our Leader who gets not one but two covers, the rollicking Controversial Girlfriend and the muffled garage rocker Pinstripes.

Phish 2026 Summer tour SBD + torrents: Madison 2026/07/07

Official Madison 2026 poster by James Martin

Phish
2026/07/07
Kohl Center, Madison, WI

Set 1:

1. Chalk Dust Torture[1] >
2. Ghost, Back on the Train >
3. Free
4. Mike's Song
5. The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday >
6. Avenu Malkenu,
7. Weekapaug Groove
8. A Wave of Hope >
9. Character Zero

Michael Whittle: Lie To Me So I Will Be Alright

Composer Michael Whittle gets away from his day job writing scores for commercials and movies with the desolate single Lie To Me So I Will Be Alright. Since the 'net connected everything it had also a nasty side-effect. No, not the rampant rise of fake news and providing a platform for people with too much time on their hands "doing their own research". It is easy to feel terribly lonesome and lost in the digital age and Whittle latched upon a conspiracy foil, the Dead Internet theory, for a morose shoegaze exercise that could be mistaken for a long lost '90s indie classic.

John Watts: "The Worker" solo acoustic 2 Meter Session

Watch John Watts perform a solo acoustic rendition of The Worker for Dutch show 2 Meter Sessies. He is part of the line-up of a show @ Bostheater in Ommen on August 29, sharing the bill with The Prodigal Sons. He takes his New Wave band Fischer-Z on tour again in the Fall to celebrate their 50th anniversary.