The January Podrophenia is up for download with Piley, Popeapedia and Steve Carr of the always excellent  Every Record Tells a Story   we...

The Podrophenia Christmas special gathers together some of most talented young musicians from the Southend area: BaVard - an award winnin...

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...

Bowie's barnets - missing the classic T J Newton do though Happy 65th birthday (belatedly) to ol' blue/brown eyes himself Davi...

Digging through the John Barry back catalogue I ran across his take (well the John Barry 7's take) of Watch Your Step...originally a...

Questions starting ' where were you when '? for me anyway, are usually answered ' in bed actually '. I'd just woken up...

If you're a fan of the Italo spy-fi film genre you may be familiar with the long-shifting whispers about low budget cult-flick The Code...

Organized and arranged by Webbie from the Football and Music blog, The John Peel memorial day Keeping It Peel blazes it's way across ...

Is it really that time of year already? Time for blackberry picking, pumpkin sculpting, showing out the hiding spiders, russety-woodland ...

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

He's written two garage classics, but who is he and what are they - find out in Podrophenia Elvis, Madonna, Bowie and Blondie are just...

After a summer break, Piley and I are finally getting back to some semi-serious podding about tonight, selecting songs themed around: obscur...

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...

Nah pop no style, a strictly roots - is the theme of today's Jamaican stop-off. A handful of roots tunes (as in 'roots of' rath...

On January the 1st 1970 Yorkshire folkie Michael Chapman released his second album Fully Qualified Survivor , a record that passed with few...

One autumnal number I'd been hoping to place in last Sunday's Autumn Falls mix was Humble Pie's Wrist Job . An oddly titled out...

I've always had something of a sweet tooth. I'm not aware if a related condition of 'sweet ear' exists - but if it does, I...

Remember the 1972 smasher 'Popcorn' by Hot Butter - a track that galloped along at the speed of the space race, sounding like Donn...

The Call Of The Beaver Patrol by V. T. Sherman - is available to buy from Amazon... I knew that this Soup Dragons tune was a rework of this...