Galen Ayers News Today

Pit Pony: World to Me Clue Records CLUE118 (LP). 2023. Chris McManus, eng. & prod. Performance **** Sonics ***½ Pit Pony is a young band that hails from Tyneside, Newcastle, an English region once best known as one of Britain's main coalmining areas. In the early days of British coalmining, pit ponies were the engines for moving coal. They rarely saw the light of day. I truly hope this Pit Pony does, because this, their debut, is a powerhouse of an album. It may be my Album of the Year...

“We just did an interview with a progressive rock magazine,” says singer/songwriter/vocalist Galen Ayers cheerfully during her Zoom chat with SPIN. “So Paul’s feeling a bit defensive.” She begins to laugh, “He thinks he may have been in the wrong pub!” The “Paul” in question is Paul Simonon, bassist, vocalist, and visual auteur of The … Paul Simonon and Galen Ayers Make a Break for the Past Read More » The post Paul Simonon and Galen Ayers Make a Break for the Past appeared ...

Reviews of new CDs from Li'l Andy with the imagined complete recordings of the fictitious Hezekiah Procter, Galen & Paul, Jorma Kaukonen and more.

Start your weekend with a curated playlist of new music, with fresh cuts from Toronto rapper DijahSB, ANOHNI and the Johnsons and desert blues collective Tinariwen.

Start your weekend with a curated playlist of new music, with fresh cuts from Toronto rapper DijahSB, ANOHNI and the Johnsons and desert blues collective Tinariwen.

There's varitety this week, for sure. Lewis Capaldi has put out his highly anticipated second LP, Kesha has shared her fifth, and veteran prog-rockers Yes have released their 23rd! Head below for more new music....

Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day? is out now.

Galen Ayers and the Clash’s Paul Simonon tell Will Hodgkinson how they came to make an album together

Bass player Paul Simonon revisits the early days of The Clash in a new interview – and says although they had no money, they sure had style

Paul Simonon on joining The Clash, the tensions that broke them apart and the reunion that never was.