Old Indie Kid

Ah 1984! The Mid-Eighties - when popular songs dealt with the drugs, racism, famine, homophobia, war, the afterlife and going to nightclubs,...

This is the third anniversary of the Old Indie Kid Mixtape series.  So celebrate with some new tunes. 1) We Belong Dead by Slash Y...

This month I have focused exclusively on Australian music. Twenty new songs from a Land Down Under. 1) Our Place by Verge Collectio...

This month the guitars have taken a backseat making room for lots of reggae, dub, drum n bass and Welsh Gansta Rap.  This blog was accidenta...

The Eighties are well under way here and a strong alternative scene was thriving.  New Order started dancing and fellow Mancunians The Smit...

This month's playlist has been a hard one to compile due the amount of awesome music I've stumbled over.  I've picked twenty of ...

By 1982 indie music was heading in numerous directions - old punks were branching out into pop, jazz, funk, dance and erm ...poetry.  Hip H...