This week’s episode of Behind The Counter season 7 features Applestump Records in Nantwich. “We look after the people in our town. We judge nobody; we talk to everybody. There’s nothing prouder than a ...

Radiohead’s second album The Bends was released on the 13th March, 1995 and exactly 30 years later to the day producer John Leckie joined Classic Album Sundays founder, radio host and DJ Colleen ...

World Machine is the album in which Level 42 transitioned from a straight up jazz-funk outfit into a funky pop band and reached number 3 on the UK Album Charts. The album featured a few singles ...

“We feel that popular music should be used to make serious statements.” – Morrissey on the BBC Whistle Test in 1985 The Smiths are considered one of the most significant acts to ...

Trans-Europe Express is one of the most significant works in the Kraftwerk canon as this is the album in which the art-music hippies began their transformation into electro-pop robots. It’s also the ...

How Jeff Mangum became inspired by Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl' and turned it into a modern classic. Brownswood head honcho Gilles Peterson digs deep into the cosmos and shares his Top Five ...

This week’s episode of Behind The Counter season 7 features Black City Records in Bristol. “Back in the 1950s, this used to be a pub and it was frequented by the city’s sex workers – and run by them ...

In the opening scene of the music video for The Avalanches “Since I Left You”, two miners are trapped in an underground abyss, surround by dirt and nothingness until they hear the opening notes of the ...

This week’s episode of Behind The Counter season 7 features Roan Records in Teddington. “While I was in Australia, I came across a record shop – a small shop with a coffee bar. I was like, maybe ...

Recorded over two years, Songs In The Key of Life is arguably Stevie’s finest hour and is also one of the greatest albums of all time as it contains hit after hit. ‘Sir Duke’, ‘I Wish’, ‘Pastime ...

At the beginning of the ‘70s the Grateful Dead were on a roll, and with this new found momentum the band were back in the studio within months to record a followup to the celebrated Workingman’s Dead ...

This week’s episode of Behind The Counter season 7 features Wrecking Ball Music and Books in Hull. “I think this project of ours is a benefit to Hull; it’s a community hub. There’s a large local music ...