Artist: Joe

★★★★☆ Making the state of the art out of the time honored and traditional, Joe and Will Ask show the number of times they've pored over the pages of the rulebook they never intend on re-writing. With that, they have to be aware that safety first can verge on the ordinary, as "Last Forever" and "Put It Down" both show. Then again, it's a margin that makes them pop-ready in parts, and with the unusually sung "This Song," the pair have done their research on the relevance of past electro dance. "Baywatch" shows that [...]

Joe writes: Every summer, London's Choice FM used to playlist reggae and that was where I first heard Sorry If I Hurt Your Feelings by Tenor Fly tune in I think 1996. Great lyric, great melody, an amusingly Benny Hill-esque backing track... it should have been huge. Which reminds me of the time the Benny Hill theme became the dancehall beat du jour. My favourite take on it was of course Lady Saw's excellent Jealous.

Check out the official music video of "Buy You a Bayou" by the Ern Dalehardt band. Instant classic.

Joe writes: This is pretty, by new artist Bruno Charles, really good singer, guitar player and songwriter

Joe writes: There was a lot wrong with Lovatux, not least their name. They signed a record deal and got nowhere in about 1997. But First Kiss, the demo that got them signed, was pretty near perfect.

Joe writes: It's an old Cornish folk song, Little Eyes, performed by Cornish band Crowns

Joe writes: Thanks to Fiona for telling me about this one. Nice YouTube clip as well.

Desde la tierra catalana, se escucha un murmullo amoroso que se convierte en un eco profundo que grita "Enséñame a Amar". Este es el nuevo video de Joe Crepúsculo, que forma parte del material El Caldero, editado por Mushroom Pillow. El también cantante y tecladista de Tarántula, nos regala un video sencillo, que nos acerca a [...]

Joe writes: He co-wrote my favourite Burritos song, Hot Burrito #1, as covered by Elvis Costello under the title I'm Your Toy

Watch the new video for " Joe " by singer-songwriter Mirel Wagner , taken from her self-titled debut album. It was directed by the Toronto-based filmmaker Grandson and Son . Like almost of Mirel's songs, " Joe " is about death and loss and Grandson and Son did a brilliant job on capturing that in a sober and decent way. The record is out on Bone Voyage Recordings (Europe), Friendly Fire Recordings (America) and Kioski (Scandinavia). Mirel Wagner - Facebook

Enséñame a amar es el título del flamante video de Joe Crepúsculo , primer corte de su nuevo disco El Caldero . El clip cuenta con la estelar participación de Lourdes Hernández , más conocida por su alias Russian Red . El trabajo dirigido por Venga Monjas está basado en un formato de programa televisivo para encontrar parejas, al estilo del recordado Cupido que emitía [...]

Joe Crepúsculo, alias del español Joël Iriarte, sigue mostrando las canciones de El Caldero , su nuevo álbum publicado este año por el sello Mushroom Pillow. En esta oportunidad estrena el video para "Viva los novios", nuevo sencillo del disco, que cuenta con la participación de la estrella pop Lourdes Hernández, mejor conocida como Russian Red. El nuevo video del cantautor catalán fue dirigido por el colectivo Venga Monjas y se inspira en programas de TV de antaño. Míralo más abajo.

Joe writes: I don't know much about this, but from what I can work out it's the debut release by a new French artist. It's a proper song that manages to avoid sounding old-fashioned or schmaltzy. Very classy.

Ambigu (Sintonia para Ambigu) (mp3) Joe Crepusculo http://www.crepus.com/ スペイン、バルセロナ のポップシンガー。癖 のある渋い声が特徴。 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =yfU-AA8rsv8 Joe Crepusculo - El dia de las medusas タンブラーもやってま す http://yamamiya.tumblr.com/

• Joe Crepúsculo - Ambigú (Sintonía para Ambigú)

Joe writes: Abba's final studio album The Visitors is reissued on Monday. Conceptually this is my favourite Abba album, being released in the year that Anni-Fred and Benny divorced (Björn had already split two years earlier). I must say, listening again, it's not the most consistent album but it does contain two classic songs of heartbreak, One Of Us and The Day Before You Came. The Day Before You Came: Listening again now, [...]

Joe writes: The new Jessie Ware tune is even better than the last one. A few people have tried to fill this niche recently but Jessie seems to be doing it right.

Jeffrey Lewis @ Space Ducks party ( more by Greg Cristman ) Jeffrey Lewis , who is on tour and opened for Pulp on April 11th , was added as the special guest to the Gary Lucas show happening at Joe's Pub on April 17 . Gary Lucas meanwhile can be found TONIGHT (4/13) at the Bell House (at a tribute to the Shaggs), as well as at Rockwood Music [...]

Joe writes: Nice hip hop tune. Who does his delivery remind me of?

Joe writes: I worked with them on the album Save The World, Get The Girl which is full of great tunes and lyrics. Here's one of the lesser known ones, The Schemers, the Scroungers and the Rats: And here's the poem Zane Lowe played last night to mark their departure, What If Punk Never Happened: I will always remember the first time I heard an entire crowd shout along with the words "Viva la punk, just one life, anarchy", and the last [...]

Joe writes: I guess this barnstorming single takes Plan B into the territory once occupied by The King Blues: Ill Manors borrows its backing track from this German hip hop track Alles Neu by Peter Fox, which in turn samples Dimitri Shostakovich 's Seventh Symphony .