A half dozen weekly fresh picks of tasty new music…

The Courettes – Talking About My Baby

They’re an electrifying garage rocking duo with an irresistible sixties pop sheen and style who head this way in April for a week of dates, buzzing their way down from Glasgow to Portsmouth also crashing in on London, Manchester and Newcastle. Check out this recent single released on Damaged Goods for a taster…

Jeff & Spencer Tweedy – Venus

A day after the sad passing of Television’s Tom Verlaine, Wilco’s main man and son shared this beautifully played cover of the track from the classic 1977 ‘Marquee Moon’ debut album and as Jeff testifies at the end of this clip, Verlaine “changed a lot of the way I look at writing songs and that’s a perfect song”…

Joanne Shaw Taylor – Just No Getting Over You (Dream Cruise)

By now Joanna is established as the real deal in terms of plugged in blues riffing excitement but her late 2022 album ‘Nobody’s Fool’ positively fizzed with the potential to push on to a far wider audience; happily that did not mean sacrificing two key elements, namely great songs and playing them like you mean it. For a glimpse of undiluted conviction watch this…

James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Secondhand Orchestra – The Harmony

A track from this collective’s recent album ‘The Great White Sea Eagle’ released on Domino; it is not as if James Yorkston needed a lift, his 21st century folk music has been a dependable place to go for at least two decades that I can recall but listening to this musical pairing it does occur that Nina Persson’s voice can elevate absolutely anything she performs…

Marlon Williams – Easy Does It

Not all audience shot live clips posted on the internet are worth bothering with but occasionally you get one like this, captured with a clear picture and passable sound from the front and it gives a nice little taste of a live tour maybe you were unable to catch, in this case Marlon from late 2022 playing a tune off his latest ‘My Boy’ album…

Jonah Yano – Always

Beautiful imagery to match a gorgeous, soul soothing new Jazz tune from Jonah Yano as heard on his new album ‘Portrait Of A Dog’…