The tale of the unreleased album from Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong as seen in the pages of the NME... If you read the NME cover-to-cover every week in the mid-to-late-noughties, you’d be familiar with the music now known - uncharitably - as 'landfill indie'. Some take offence to this term - whether it be the bands themselves (understandably), or the fans who grew up with these tunes as their soundtrack. It’s somewhat of an unfair categorisation, as the timeframe includes s

Or ‘How Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys botched their 90s revival’... The Beach Boys’ career is littered with unreleased and unfinished albums, as is many of the individual members’ solo careers. A few of these albums have taken on legendary status, no more so than 1967’s Smile , which still receives rabid attention and discussion despite it being ‘finished’ in 2004 by Brian Wilson, and given an official reconstruction from the original Beach Boys recordings in 2011. Other un

To celebrate the two month anniversary of SECRET SAUCES: ISSUE TWO, we present a 3-zine box set. Including a remastered edition of Issue Two, another zine of outtakes, handwritten early 'demo' drafts and alternate versions, and a third zine of a transcript of Issue Two being performed live at Brixton Academy (men's toilets) in London, September 2025. Out on November 15th, you can pre-order at the shop here . Here's a run-down of the four different editions you can purchase...

Five whole months on from Issue One, the second issue of SECRET SAUCES music fanzine... SECRET SAUCES: SECOND COMING is back from the...

I’m very excited to say that the great RRPL magazine has used my Secret Sauces fanzine article about their March exhibition at the...

Here are some notes (when I can be arsed to write them) on the twenty-second Secret Sauces Radio show, which can be listened to on...

Back to regular programming after last week's bout of lazyitis/seeing Redd Kross and Melvins. Here's a 'demos' special - one hour of...

Here are some notes on the twentieth Secret Sauces Radio show, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO...

Outtakes are a lot of fun for record nerds. Tracks recorded during sessions, passed on for the album or b-side and often abandoned until...

Here are some notes (when I can be arsed to write them) on the eighteenth Secret Sauces Radio show, which can be listened to on Mixcloud...

The story of the short-lived Prince Paul imprint from 1991... Prince Paul, the Stetsasonic DJ and legendary producer with De La Soul, was...

A swarm of bees! One hour of some good b-sides. Here are some notes on the seventeenth Secret Sauces Radio show, which can be listened to...

Here are some notes on the sixteenth Secret Sauces Radio show, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO...

Now That's What I Call Feel-Good Summer-Time Sing-Along Anthems! This week's mix is for anyone else who is dying in this disgusting UK...

Here are some notes on the fourteenth Secret Sauces Radio show, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO...

It's a live special for the thirteenth Secret Sauces Radio show, a nice head-gig with 15 bands on the bill on a revolving stage like they...

Here are some notes on the twelfth Secret Sauces Radio show, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO...

Here are some notes on the eleventh Secret Sauces Radio show, a special 'covers' edition, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ......

A (very) brief history of SST: SST Records was founded by Black Flag leader Greg Ginn to put out their first 7” (Nervous Breakdown)...

Here are some notes on the tenth Secret Sauces Radio show, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO IDENT...