This Saturday - a roomful of loud sound as Lo Chief and Howling Black Soul ramp up the amps. Come on down for drums and decibels at The Ra...

If you've never been to a Howling Black Soul gig at Peggy Sue's - Carl Hawkins has distilled the essence and sweaty energy of ...

' scuse us while we kiss the sky ' For our latest Podrophenia, we're joined by special guest Doug Kaye who worked at Mr Lov...

Photo by Gary Franklin.... If you grabbed, downloaded or listened live to our recent U edition of Podrophenia , with Martin McNeill an...

Let's put the keys in the ignition - ZZ Top style, rev the engine, pump that pedal and head out on the wild and unknown highway of 20...

  Steve Hooker and Wilko Be-bop-a-lula-a-lop-bam-boom - it's the R edition of Radio Podrophenia,with live music from Steve Ho...

A triple whammy weekender of words and music is scheduled around Leigh and Southend over the next few days.  The Shorelines Festival - cu...

From postcards from Pellicci's to postcards from Southend and Scarborough Rewind backawhiles, to January 2010 ... and you'll...

Snow stopped play for the last edition of the Sunday Sessions - but this weekend, we shall have.... a mix of blues, soul, boogaloo, funk,...

It's the first Sunday session of the year at Southend's Railway Hotel - with an afternoon jam from Martin McNeill and the Bott...

Well that's me done for the year - work is finished (and I'm not back til the 2nd). The shopping's shopped, the presents are...

Swinging at the Sunday Sessions - get me in the floral shirt! Flats and fifths: those steps and semitones that give jazz and blues t...

Back at The Railway tonight - with guitar in hand (and possibly bass too), for the Tuesday night fixture that is Bluesday Tuesday - an o...

I'm on something of a right roaring ol' blues-buzz at the moment. A couple of sweet inspirations have got me knocking on the pe...

Picking up from Tuesday's funky run-out, today, I'm pitching in a 22 track, 70 minute mix whisking together all shades of s...

It's our first guest blogger of the year. Firing up a hand-picked playlist of his favourite soul, rock and stoner tones is Nick Saloman...

The Sweet - 1974  Sixties garage, The Who, Small Faces, Iggy Pop, Ian Dury and Dr Feelgood can all claim paternity rights to the Godfat...

It sounds like this........ The secret of The Beatles sound (well, Lennon's technique mostly) was revealed to me in a loca...

How gutted and crushed must the Blue Magoos have been to hear the explosive opening bars of Deep Purple's Black Night ringing out from r...

It's a playlist of perhaps rowdier sounds than we'd typically chow down on of a Friday. But, there is funkyness to be found amongst ...