Jonathan Aird

Jerry Joseph And The Jackmormons “I Think I’m Here” – glorious life affirming music

May 18, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

Jerry Joseph, we are happy to tell you, returns – not that he’s been away exactly, but we have an insatiable appetite for the kind of music that Jerry Joseph makes, and so the news that […]

Brian Fallon “Not Bad For Jersey” – not rocking Bergerac’s patch

May 15, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem returns with his first new solo music in five years, to be released via Lesser Known Records. As you might imagine, it’s a pretty hard-rocking outing, and on Not Bad […]

Fruit Bats “That Goddamn Sun” – when will it be my time

May 14, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

It was all going so well, wasn’t it? We had a theme – a great theme – running through this week’s Tracks and now we’ve gone and thrown it all away. Alas. Alack. Oh well, let’s […]

Wave Of The Flood “Blind” – oh, drat, I didn’t realise

May 13, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

Ok, it seems that this week’s accidental theme is continuing, and in an interesting twist, we’re also picking up a thread from earlier in the week to weave a tapestry of sound with additional connections. That’s […]

Live Review: Paraorchestra and The Breath, The Barbican, London – 22nd April 2026

May 12, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s a fairly unusual thing to be attending a gig where all the background on the reasoning for the collaboration and what each of the parts of the equation, folk group The Breath and the larger […]

Something for the weekend: Passenger “It Was Gonna Be You”

August 14, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from Passenger out today called It Was Gonna Be You which doesn’t really have a whole lot of […]

artwork for Aaron Lee Tasjan album Get Over It, Underdog

Aaron Lee Tasjan “Get Over It, Underdog”

August 14, 2026 0

A broad-spectrum listening experience packed with vibrant, timeless songs. Aaron Lee Tasjan sought counsel from his longstanding friend and mentor, the late great Todd Snider, to help loosen the shackles of imposter syndrome that were tying […]

Paperback Riders: George Takei “To The Stars”

August 14, 2026 0

George Takei’s 1994 autobiography, To the Stars, is rather more than a standard Hollywood memoir. Whilst it does cover his years on the USS Enterprise in detail, the more interesting aspects lie in the exploration of […]

Articles by Jonathan Aird

Jerry Joseph And The Jackmormons “I Think I’m Here” – glorious life affirming music

Brian Fallon “Not Bad For Jersey” – not rocking Bergerac’s patch

Fruit Bats “That Goddamn Sun” – when will it be my time

Wave Of The Flood “Blind” – oh, drat, I didn’t realise

Live Review: Paraorchestra and The Breath, The Barbican, London – 22nd April 2026

Something for the weekend: Passenger “It Was Gonna Be You”

Aaron Lee Tasjan “Get Over It, Underdog”

Paperback Riders: George Takei “To The Stars”

Classic Clips: Julian Taylor “Friend Of The Devil” – LIVE at SiriusXM, 2019

The Morning Line polish up their Stars on a new label and look to the future