Jade's Music Blog

In the next of our series of reader columns, we have Jann Dougherty from New York talking about how she fell in love with the Liverpool music scene from across the pond...

Hold on to your skinny- fit jeans, The Rascals are back in town.

ECHO and the Bunnymen defined the sound of a generation with their bittersweet lyrics and haunting melodies...

Earlier this week I commented on Miles from The Rascals’ tight trousers.
I stand corrected.
His jeans look like MC Hammer’s baggy pants compared with the finalists in the official tightest trousers in Liverpool Music Week 2007 contest – drumroll please - The Hot Melts and Eugene McGuinness. Please boys – do leave a little to the imagination.

In Spin It or Bin It today we've got reviews of the latest releases from three great artists...

Are you hanging up your stocking on your wall? Are you hoping that the snow will start to fall? Yes indeed I am...

The big book of rock and roll clichés clearly got lost in the post on its way to Hoylake...

Today we have the latest releases from The Wombats, HIM and Foo Fighters. Read on, and let me know what you think...

In the first of our guest columns in which bands celebrate great Christmas songs, we have Chrisy from current Liverpool ECHO Unsigned Band of the Week The Affection talking about Slade's 1973 hit Merry Christmas Everybody...

In the second of our season of festive songs discussed by great local musicians, we have Merseyside singer/songwriter and advocate for all things musical Alun Parry talking about his favourite Christmas song - John Lennon's Happy Xmas (War Is Over).

In the next of our season of festive songs chosen by Merseyside bands we have Wayne of the Vagabonds extolling the virtues of this Judy Garland classic Christmas track...

JOE Lean and the Jing Jang Jong are a fantastic band with a rubbish name. They’re one of my favourite bands of the year, and next week they’re back in town for the second time in as many months.

THERE are some bands whose story is easy to tell. They are the bands for whom it all just falls into place: their sound is easy to describe, their look is stylised and just so, their philosophy drips into a classic, easily defined rock’n’roll mould.
Edgar Jones and the Joneses are not one of those bands. They’re much more interesting...

From his early days in the La’s, to forming Cast and then his current acoustic venture, John Power has always been one step ahead...

For a band who called themselves “tired of being sexy”, CSS certainly like to walk on the wild side.
The Sao Paolo six-piece - five electro-punk minxes, one bespectacled bloke – have filthier lyrics than Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White in a swearing competition.

In the next of our series of great Christmas songs recommended by great Merseyside bands we have Little Name talking about Jona Lewie's Stop the Cavalry...

In the next of our series of Christmas songs saluted by great musicians, we have the lvely Cheapskate on Just Like Christmas by Low...

In the next of our series of great Christmas songs recommended by Merseyside bands we have Darnell on Shakin Steven's Merry Christmas Everyone...

For the last year Pete Wylie has been celebrating Liverpool’s music scene with Classic, a monthly night of great songs at Zanzibar. Next week sees the last of the monthly season, so I caught up with Pete to find out more about the music that’s inspiring this last gig in the series...

In the next in our series of great Christmas songs championed by Merseyside musicians we have Thomas Joseph of acoustic duo Thomas Joseph and Murphy on my favourite Christmas song - Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty McColl...

In the next of our festive season of great Christmas songs championed by Merseyside musicians we have Paul from The Deadsexys talking about Wizzard's I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day...

Mobile Act Unsigned captured the imagination of the nation's music fans. Following the show's final, yesterday, Alex James talks about his rock'n'roll years, his favourite Mobile Act bands and, of course, cheese…

In the last of our series of festive songs championed by Merseyside musicians, we have The Lapis talking about Little Donkey...

It's got to be the coolest office Christmas party ever, with sets from the biggest and brightest names on Liverpool's music scene.

It’s been a big year in music, with some great - and not so great - albums. Here’s my guide to some of the best, and worst, of 2007.

WHAT a year it’s been in the Merseyside music scene…
From the announcement that the ECHO Arena is to host the MTV Europe Music Awards to Amy Winehouse’s will-she-won’t-she shows, Liverpool was rarely far from the headlines in 2007...

This year there are lots of bands bubbling away under the surface in Liverpool ready to take the world by storm.