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James McMurtry performs We Can't Make It Here Anymore James McMurtry recorded this video in 2007 and the message is becoming increas...

Found some old pics of me with my band, The Snow Leopards. Even before Apple! Well, it was long, long time ago in a universe far, far away ....

My programme, Chopsticks At Dawn , about chinoiserie clichés in music, is on tomorrow BBC Radio 4 Extra & iPlayer . It's on four t...

Just found this archive curiosity from years back, way before Apple OSX was twinkle in Steve Jobs's eye. A pic of me with my band, Th...

Today live at 5pm on Madam Miaow's Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, Charles Shaar Murray concludes his Guide to the Blues with Part 3...

Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) artists demand representation that reflects British Society  Last February, the British East As...

I'm back with a bang! To be precise, a new eight-week radio series of Madam Miaow's Culture Lounge on Resonance 104.4FM on Tuesda...

At last, the new long-overdue edition of Charles Shaar Murray's coruscating collection of journalism —  Shots From the Hip (I told him...

Following the awesome appearance of 1960s icon, poet and political jailbird  John Sinclair  on Madam Miaow's Culture Lounge at Reson...

Is Lily Allen having her cake and eating it with her video, Hard Out Here ? The lyrics are sort of subversive but the women in the video a...

Madam Miaow's Culture Lounge returns to the St Ives Arts Festival following last year's The Steampunk Opium Wars extravaganza t...

A culture-rammed week began with Crosstown Lightnin' at the Black Velvet club in West Kensington last Saturday 18th May, supporting B...

Crosstown Lightnin' played their first gig in a while, the first of many more the way things are looking. Charles Shaar Mu...

Love this piece about the punk movement in China. I think I was the first home-grown Chinese punk in Britain, hanging out at Vivienne We...

The vast lobby of the Victoria and Albert Museum had been turned into the sort of joint where beautiful young men and women press cocktails...

Spent an enjoyable Sunday with my mate Deborah Evans-Stickland — she of the Flying Lizards and the definitive version of "Money...

My review in the Morning Star . The dusky woman outcast mistrusted for her talents is an old, old story that's still around today.  ...

I was, am and will continue to be thrilled by this encouragement from meister songwriter Wilko Johnson for my poetry. Here he is saying ni...

Spent Tuesday afternoon with one of the two most beautiful men in rock 'n' roll, the other one being David Bowie. Three if you in...

Duck stars at the Peabody Hotel, Memphis This article first appeared in Gap Year Magazine The Mississippi Blues trail It was the ducks that ...