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One of the things that we fetishise, possibly too much, when we talk about music is artistic growth. Musicians are supposed to be restless, always looking for the next big thing, never trying to settle for the same thing they’ve … Continue reading →

Oh look, it’s yet another post about my podcast! I know, I’ve written very little other than stuff about the podcast recently — but remember that the podcast itself came to about twenty thousand words of writing last month, which … Continue reading →

The new episode of A History Of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up, on Louis Jordan and “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie”, with detours into the Marx Brothers, Billie Holiday, Chick Webb, and an eighty-year-old jazz controversy. It should also … Continue reading →

There are a few blog posts I’ve got mostly or wholly written, which I’d much rather be posting here — the next in my series of posts on Harry Nilsson, reviews of the new Christmas albums by the Monkees and … Continue reading →

For some reason the old URL stopped letting people subscribe yesterday. This one should work instead — https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-history-of-rock-music-in-five-hundred-songs/id1437402802

For those of you who prefer to get your podcasts through Spotify, you can listen to it here.

There are actually two episodes going live now, at 1AM UK time. One is a very short disclaimer episode about how I’m going to deal with misogynist abusers in the podcast, which largely replicates what I said a couple of … Continue reading →