Best of a dozen kind of idea.  2012 was a great year for music not only because RadioActive started rebroadcasting and gave a home to middle aged Dj’s like the good Doctor, but also because of the music.  Music has shattered, splintered into a thousand shards and many of them are exquisite, so it’s impossible …

14 HardWithTheSmooth – Dr. Groove on said wireless starts with two songs about Hard times, in fact they’re both of that name.  Human League are first up and that song comes from 1983 and they also had a song called Austerity.  Then we go back to the legendary Curtis Mayfield recording in 1975 of Hard …

Mark E Smith – the walking epitome of truculent has died, and with his passing the rock and roll landscape has changed forever. In the psychic city of rock and roll, the old red brick victorian building which was always collapsing,  has finally returned in a cloud of dust to the earth.  We all know …