Tag Archives: The Rolling Stones

Charles Manson was a person too

Posted on 31/10/2019 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

It was fitting that he’d finally decide to go through with it right as the rambunctious crescendo of ‘Socialist Suicide’, with its violent imagery of scabs committing various forms of the act in the safe heavens of their homogenised suburban … Continue reading →

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Song Of The Day – Dead Flowers by Townes Van Zandt

Posted on 25/10/2018 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

From the compilation album ‘The Best Of Townes Van Zandt’ (2002)

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Song On The Day – Jumpin’ Jack Flash by The Rolling Stones

Posted on 19/04/2017 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

From the compilation album ‘Hot Rocks 1964-1971’ (1971)

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Essential Listening: The Best Albums, EPs, Reissues and Mixes of 2015

Posted on 24/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

With each passing year the better music websites (and no, this doesn’t include the Kanye West fellating, hypster centric, Pitchfork) are publishing their end of year lists well before the year ends, in some cases right at the start of … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 31st March Mix for Rinse FM, 38 Metal Guitar, 54 Synth Brass, 65 Cathedral, A Love Supreme, A Tribe Called Quest, Alexandria, Ami Shavit, Another Side, Anthony Child, Aphex Twin, Art Angels, Bad, Bad Guynaecology, Bad Guys, Best of 2015, Bjork, Black Zone Myth Chant, Blur, Brand new, CC Not, Demdike Stare, Dream A Garden, Elaenia, Electronic Recordings From Maui Jungle Volume 1, EP, Fingers Inc., FKA Twigs, Floating Points, Galcher Lustwerk, Geo Fi, Gnod, Grimes, High Drama (Blowing Up The Workshop 41), Holly Herndon, I Was Crossing a Bridge – Music From Memory, In Alpha Mood, In Situ, Infinity Machines, Jam City, John Coltrane, Kamasi Washington, Key Markets, Laurel Halo, Leif, Lil-Ugly Mane, Lone & Ross From Friends, M Ashworth, M3LL155X, Mane Thecel Phares, Mixes, NTS Mix 5th November, Palmbomen, Palmbomen II, Paranoid London, People’s Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm, Peru Bravo: Funk, Platform, Reissue, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Secret Thirteen Mix 149, Shinchi Atobe, Ship-Scope, Shit And Shine, Sleaford Mods, Soul & Psych From Peru's Radical Decade, Sticky Fingers, Summertime 06, Taraxacum, Testpressing 007 (EP), The Epic, The Magic Whip, The Rolling Stones, Third Side of The Tape, Too many tags, user48736353001, Vince Staples, Vito Ricci, Vulnicura | 1 Comment

Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2014

Posted on 22/12/2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

And so we’ve reached the end of another year. It’s the worst time of year; it’s cold, dark and I’m left with an inalienable, amassing sense of dread with each one that passes that there’s surely not many more left … Continue reading →

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