We Dig Music

It's the end of 2019 which has been an utterly fantastic year for music (possibly at the expense of everything else...) so as is traditional, here's our annual best of the year extravaganza! We count down our favourite 30 songs of the year, plus we discuss songs that didn't quite make it, our favourite gigs of the year and also music we've discovered this year that didn't come out in 2019. It's ba...

Series 3 is here! and we're starting it with a particularly European flavour! This month we'll be talking about the surprisingly melodic German Funeral Doom whale botherers Ahab and Scandinavian 80s pop legends A-Ha! As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll also be jabbering about overuse of Fairlight Synthesizers ruining original versions of amazing songs, Hasselhoff/Ocean confusion,...

We've reached the end of the alphabet and therefore it's the final episode of series 2! It's also our 50th episode! This month we'll be talking about New Jersey's indie rock music nerd favourites Yo La Tengo & Texas's noisiest beardiest bluesiest boogie merchants ZZ Top! As usual we can never staymon topic for long so you also get to hear what may be Colin's worst dad joke yet, stories about r...

This month we travel to the 1980's bedsits of Leeds and the mean violence drenched streets of Shaolin where we'll be talking about perennial Peel favourites and indie legends The Wedding Present & Staton Island's biggest chess obsessed hip hop titans Wu-Tang Clan. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll also be talking about dan dan diggy de dan de dan, shocking plot twists abd "...

Surprise! this isn't a We Dig Music episode, this is Colin & Ian's other podcast "Free With This Month's Issue"! a podcast where Colin & Ian plus a different guest each month listen to a free covermount cd from an old music magazine such as Melody Maker, NME, Mojo, Kerrang, Q, Metal Hammer, Uncut etc and uncover it's various horrors and delights. This particular month our guest is some ind...

After a short break (cos Colin's laptop broke) we're back! This month we spiral out & keep going to the letter T where we'll be talking about Texan post rockers This Will Destroy You & Californian prog metal alchemist mathematicians Tool. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll also be talking abut making post rock acceptable for 3 year olds, wanton destruction of pub floorbo...

We're 2 years old (not literally, please don't close our Twitter account...) so in a break from our usual programming this month we have a VERY SPECIAL EPISODE for you all. It's a bit like our christmas/end of year episodes, but rather than being our favourite songs of the last year, this time we're going back in time for two full decades to the year 1999! To explain how the voting works, we each...

This month we travel where boys fear to tread, all the way to the letter S where we'll be talking about Seattle's noisiest experimental drone sluts Sunn O))) and Billy Corgan's shiny headed alt rock guitar heroes Smashing Pumpkins. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so you can also hear Colin's ridiculous Black Metal vocals, Tracey not recognising multiple vocalists, infinite guitar over...

This episode it's the end of the world as we know it, but we feel fine cos it's the letter R and we're talking about California based sadcore miserabalists Red House Painters (and the other works of Mark Kozelek such as Sun Kil Moon) and Atlanta's finest college rock megstars R.E.M.. As usual we never stay on topic for long so we'll also be discussing techniques for avoidig Red Hot Chili Peppers,...

This episode we're either driving a truck, train, tractor or taking a walk to the letter P where we'll be rambling on about Scottish Indie (we don't care what you say Stephen) DIY pioneers The Pastels & Texas's finest cowboys from hell Pantera. As usual we never stay on topic for long so we'll also be discussing the disturbing parallels between Norwiegan Black Metal & C86 Scottish Indiepop...

Surprise! you get this episode a whole week early as Colin & Ian are off to Poland to see Laibach next week! It's February and we're at the letter O so this time we'll be discussing (and in one bands case, arguing slightly) about Swedish Prog metal behemoths Opeth and Mancunian everyone plagiarists Oasis. There's a LOT of very rude words in this episode so possibly best not to listen to when y...

2019 is in bloom so this time our our alphabetical musical jabberings sit down with a nice plate of Mexican seafood and the letter N to talk about short-lived Brazilian/Wolverhamptonian industrial metal super-group Nailbomb and Aberdeen Washington's finest generation X defining grunge power trio Nirvana. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be talking about broken pro...

It's Christmas! so, this time, we're irking the Daily Mail readers by actually not doing much to do with Christmas at all (Let's call it a Winterval special just to annoy them even more!). It's our end of the year best of 2018 spectacular! We'll be counting down our favourite 30 songs of the year, plus discussing our favourite gigs of the year and also music we've discovered this year which didn't...

Our alphabetical podcast wanderings take us somewhere nice to the letter M so this time we're discussing Scottish post rock legends Mogwai & Bay Area thrash titans Metallica. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll be also be talking about somnambulistic documentaries, the pinnacle of all human achievement and more Husker Du comparisons than you'd expect. Listen to all available...

This time our our alphabetical musical shenanigans decide it's time to get away to the letter L so we're talking about Slovenia's stompiest avant-garde industrial statesmen Laibach and New York's indie dance legends LCD Soundsystem. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be talking about soundtrack albums to movies with no music, missing Maiden for Mylo and Tracey finds...

This fortnight our alphabetical music journey wastes a moment with the letter K so this time we're talking about Afrobeat pioneer, political revolutionary and parallel husband Fela Kuti and Nashville indie rock megastars Kings Of Leon. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be talking about the legend of the bulletproof goat coat, a thorough and conclusive debunking of...

This time our alphabetical musical adventures get closer to the letter J, so we're talking about Birmingham extreme metal legend Justin K Broadrick's pop/shoegaze/post rock project Jesu and massively influential Mancuniuan misery merchants Joy Division. As is the tradition we never stay on topic for long so we also jabber on about hypothetical methods of eradicating Simply Red from time and space,...

So our alphabetical musical adventures travel across the sea of regrets in order to redefine the letter I so this time we're talking about massively underrated Leeds based post rock historians I Like Trains and chilled Cali beach vibes merchants Incubus. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be talking about our top 3 Charles Mingus album titles, Morse code through a s...

So our alphabetical musical shenanigans head up from the skies to to the letter H so this time we're talking about massively influential post hardcore producer ignorers Hüsker Dü and the universe's greatest ever guitar hero Jimi Hendrix. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be talking about fictional terrible easter themed horror movies, songs inspired by lumpy mashed...

So our alphabetical musical adventures hitches a ride to the letter G so this time we're talking about elusive Virginian post-rock invertebrates Gregor Samsa and Californian pop punk stadium fillers Green Day. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be talking about the pop punk Euronymous, Ian's realisation that he's got away with plagiarism and big respect for Charlie...

It's it! What is it? Why, it's our alphabetical musical expedition ricocheting into the letter F so this time we're talking about excellent but eyebrowless hipster troubadour Father John Misty and California's finest funk metal (yeah, you heard us Kiedis) genre hopping lunatics Faith No More. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be discussing horrific hotel hairdryer...

Today is the day that our alphabetical musical odyssey reaches the letter E so we'll be discussing strangely uplifting indie rock harbingers of death Eels and Birmingham based post punk (European) stadium fillers Editors. As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us discussing inter-dimensional doppelganger murder, badly timed supermarket visits and massively overrated fantasy l...

Our alphabetical musical wanderings continue like a rolling stone towards the letter D so we'll be discussing ridiculously loud proto-grunge slacker legends Dinosaur Jr and Iconic cantankerous folk rock purist-irker Bob Dylan. As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us jabbering on about Winwood & Zimmerman's spooky ghost adventures, Wooden Robot Songs and Ian offends a ma...

Our alphabetical musical adventures travel from the edge of the deep green sea to arrive at the letter C, which means we're talking about legendary cult American singer songwriter(and friend of Michael Stipe, Shirley Manson and Kristin Hersh) Vic Chessnutt and Crawley's (no, the universe's) finest stadium goth titans and official greatest band in the world ever, The Cure (Colin in particular is VE...

Our alphabetical musical adventures go intergalactic to arrive at the letter B, which means we're talking about Wisconsin's favourite enigmatic indie-folk collective (and Kanye West's favourite musician) Bon Iver and New York's brattiest (but later socially conscious) Punk Rap legends Beastie Boys . As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us jabbering on about Roland Rat's imp...