Category: Music
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WIS 2025 Tracks

The Lazarus-like return of the WIS blog brings you an end-of-2025 look back at some of the new music released in the last 12 months. Unusually short on words and (very!) long on music, stick the playlist on (resurrection) shuffle and enjoy…
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WIS 15 Aug 2025

For it’s final five o’clock Friday posting, WIS presents a six-song playlist inspired by olfactory memory and how some odours can powerfully link you to the past. Close your eyes and breathe in!
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WIS 8 Aug 2025

It’s the second part of the geeky discussion on the eclectic soundtrack that is woven through Season 4 of the TV drama series The Bear. So dive in!
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WIS 1 Aug 2025

The first of two blogs dedicated to the carefully curated soundtrack from Season 4 of TV drama series The Bear – if you know, you know.
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WIS 25 Jul 2025

A quick flip back to the six-song format this week as WIS ends its gloriously sunny van trip around the wonderful coast of Cornwall with a selection of covers.
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WIS 18 Jul 2025

Is it real? Or is it Memorex? The old cassette advert came to mind as WIS was persuaded to take a leap into the digital future to deep dive into the past at ABBA Voyage.
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WIS 11 July 2025

WIS has a nostalgia rush of mutant disco as August Darnell’s Kid Creole rolls back the years to those carefree days of the early 80s.
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WIS 4 July 2025

If ever there was a need to mark the Fourth of July with a positive American story, it is now. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Brandi Carlile!
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WIS 27 Jun 2025

A brief return for the WIS six-song format in honour of the audience T-shirts spotted at Wilco’s only UK date at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday.
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WIS 20 Jun 2025

WIS presents a personal tale of how Brian Wilson’s music filled the gap between Bowie’s Golden Years and The Damned’s New Rose in the long hot summer of 1976.
