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Peter’s Twenty Favourite Albums 2024
As tradition calls for since 2015, here’s twenty personal favourites among newly recorded albums released in 2024. Each album comes with a commentary and a featured track as a taster. Most artists have been around […]
The Gories – Cry Girl
SinglesGoingSteady#04: The Gories – Cry Girl [Wild Honey Records; 2024] 04 is both a new and old sensation. Although recently released, The Gories recorded Cry Girl in Memphis back in 1990. Cry Girl has previously […]
Thee Cha Cha Chas – Rock’n’Roll Till I’m Dead
SinglesGoingSteady#03: Thee Cha Cha Chas – Rock’n’Roll Till I’m Dead [Folc Records; 2023] Thee Cha Cha Chas’ approach to music can best be summed up as “good clean fun”. Unpretentious, straightforward garage punk rock’n’roll with […]
The Fevers – Don’t Tell Me It’s Wrong
SinglesGoingSteady#02: The Fevers – Don’t Tell Me It’s Wrong [Get Hip Recordings, 2005] The Fevers churned out some really good power pop stuff between 1998 and 2006; two albums, two singles and one EP. Their […]
Randells – Seven Inch
SinglesGoingSteady #01: Randells – Seven Inch [Jarama 45RPM Recs.,2022] What could be better than starting this series of highly recommended – but perhaps not so well-known – songs with one that celebrates the 7″ format […]
Bo-Dogs – Bad Bad Dog! [Low Impact Records; 2014]
My music heart has a special place for albums where all the songs are under three minutes. The concept becomes more packed that way, and you thus avoid a lot of wasted time. No detours, […]
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Peter’s Twenty Favourite Albums 2024
As tradition calls for since 2015, here’s twenty personal favourites among newly recorded albums released in 2024. Each album comes with a commentary and a featured track as a taster. Most artists have been around […]
The Gories – Cry Girl
SinglesGoingSteady#04: The Gories – Cry Girl [Wild Honey Records; 2024] 04 is both a new and old sensation. Although recently released, The Gories recorded Cry Girl in Memphis back in 1990. Cry Girl has previously […]
Thee Cha Cha Chas – Rock’n’Roll Till I’m Dead
SinglesGoingSteady#03: Thee Cha Cha Chas – Rock’n’Roll Till I’m Dead [Folc Records; 2023] Thee Cha Cha Chas’ approach to music can best be summed up as “good clean fun”. Unpretentious, straightforward garage punk rock’n’roll with […]
The Fevers – Don’t Tell Me It’s Wrong
SinglesGoingSteady#02: The Fevers – Don’t Tell Me It’s Wrong [Get Hip Recordings, 2005] The Fevers churned out some really good power pop stuff between 1998 and 2006; two albums, two singles and one EP. Their […]
Randells – Seven Inch
SinglesGoingSteady #01: Randells – Seven Inch [Jarama 45RPM Recs.,2022] What could be better than starting this series of highly recommended – but perhaps not so well-known – songs with one that celebrates the 7″ format […]
Bo-Dogs – Bad Bad Dog! [Low Impact Records; 2014]
My music heart has a special place for albums where all the songs are under three minutes. The concept becomes more packed that way, and you thus avoid a lot of wasted time. No detours, […]
Set Me Free – New and upcoming releases
Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders – Tells Us All A Story/Prison Of Love (single)
Even though the album … There’s Pretty Things in Palookaville … from last year, by Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders, was fully packed, there are even more recordings in the pipeline waiting for release. Pat […]
Jeremy Scott – Bear Grease (album)
Jeremy Scott is best known from his work with Harlan T. Bobo and the Memphis-based bands The Toy Trucks and, maybe foremost, Reigning Sound – currently in the spotlight with the album A Little More […]
Alan Vega – After Dark (album)
This second unearthing in 2021 from the late Alan Vega (1938–2016) archive, the posthumous After Dark (In The Red Recordings), is very reminiscent of Alan Vegas’ two-day improvisation with Alex Chilton, which materialized as Cubist […]
Reigning Sound – A Little More Time with Reigning Sound (album)
As Jeremy Scott, the bassist of Reigning Sound, commented a while ago on PopDiggers’ announcement of Merge Records’ re-issue of Abdication…For Your Love – Plus, Reigning Sound had an album underway – seven years after […]
He’s Bad! 11 Bands Decimate The Beats of Bo Diddley (6×7” box, various artists)
Slovenly Recordings’/Black Gladiator‘s limited edition box set contains six 7” with Bo Diddley-related material – all are covers of Elias McDaniel’s or his co-conspirators originals. Some of them are well known while others are rare. […]
Bad Nerves – Bad Nerves (album, 2020)
Bad Nerves is an East London quintet with three singles in the baggage before this self-titled debut album was released in late 2020. It’s full throttle from start to finish with twelve songs in less […]