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I'm just finding how similar their trajectories are. OK. Cale was a Velvet, Eno was the first to 'mainstreamise' the Velvet's sound. both are seminal producers or seminal albums. Both are incredibly influential muscians who never had a hit. Both played on each others albums. Personally I pick...

Last night here on '60 minutes' we had quite a disturbing peice on the dangers of 'skunk' or hydroponically grown pot. Now '60 minutes' is a populist more centre-right type show, BUT previous to this we had our more leftist show '4 Corners' with a no less damning expose on the dangers of...

i remember in the late 80s that Adrian Sherwood was the Brian Eno of his day. I always loved the 'Pay it all back' comps, though some of it became horribly dated. i haven't read reynolds latest book, but did On-u get a mention? I just read a review that commented on his ommiting Crass (fair...

It's been nearly 10 years since his fantastic solo album came out, and since then...Ziiip! whats happned to this 'Elvis' of UK post-rock?

Yo! REAL ambient/post-rcok muzak made the way it wuz supposed to be! Krautrock meets Brit Pop at least 18 years before it got sanitzed, buggerised and made into Coldplay, or Sigur Ros or ..... DRONE ON!

Personally I'm kinda impressed with this 'epic'-indie band from Canada. Being quite young their are totally influenced by the 'epic' psych indie of Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev, but they're also taking this retro-80s thing by sounding at times like early Simple Minds!!@#! (which aint such a bad...

did it become 'grime', or was it another of those trendy critic-created 'fad' genres like 'New Romantic', 'Shoegazer' and countless others....?

I've noticed in recent years how some of the most 'transgressive' or 'intense' post-punk artists of the l;ast 20 years have 'mellowed' with age sonically, and how many of them are obsessed with becoming...Bob Dylan (or Leonard Cohen).. The artists in question are: Nick Cave Michael Gira Place...

I love how you Poms get so excited over one close win. There's some total wanker journo from the Daily Telegraph coming and saying how this England team could be the 3rd greatest sporting team of all time and can beat any team on any pitch anywhere in the world! Hello? 'Anywhere in the world'...

Since I been spreading so much hate and negative vibes, i thought I'd share with you my love of this P2P music swapper doodle - SoulSeek. Mainly coz you get totally rad bootleg mixes and live traxx and wotnot and becuase it has a more 'alt/indie/metal/techno' focus you can track down obscure...

I paid 75 bucks to see them. Their audience are a pack of privelidged left-leaning exqisitely fashion-hip wankers!! I got their first album, liked the first three tracks but the rest bored me, much like the concert! I mean what are they, Coldplay meets Radiohead via Slowdive with a guy...

the best post-Bangs punk-rock writer that ever was! Great retardo-intellectual spew of thought prose and the wildest taste out. Pure and simple. I miss FE, and the occasional jizzms in Arfur and Wyer aren't enuff. I saw some neat Internerd-Vids of the man at the Ecsatatic Peace site which...

The sorta stuff Becks would boogie to, or the slags Shane Warne bonks, here are some of mine (guilty pleasure, but actually killer traxx IMHO): 1. Touch Me - Ruis Da Silva : Sublime, trunce with that crazy Spandau Ballet 'chant #1' guitar riff sample. 2. Another Chance - Roger Shachez ...

I remember reading about this guy in the late 80s or early 90s in a great little piece in 'Spin' written by Byron Coley. I piqued a serious curiosity (like most Coley pieces), and when I tried to track down this guy's stuff at our local indie record store people would say 'it's unlistenable...

Fucking LOVE the boxset BLue Underground released last year, with the FIRM and MADE IN UK being my personal faves. A true PUNK UK director, way cooler than Alex Cox. I'm curious to know if any UK Dissensus users have copies of his TV films 'Christine', 'Road' and 'Psy-Warriors'? They're rarer...

OK. I've come to the conclusion that MoodyMann, like Public enemy, is an IMPORTANT modern act, and like PE, has never made a really bad album. (In fact I'd put MM in the post PE canon for important 'black' music, just after UR ) SURE, his albums are hideously inconsistent, and I'm picking...

Since dance music is in total remission, I'm curious to know why nobody rated the Italo-Chicago experiment 'Jestofunk. sure the album 'love in a black dimension' had some horrible 'acid-jazz (remember that 90s hippie aberration - the 'happy' flipside of 'grunge'!!) numbers, but with dance music...

I remember the video clip in the late 80s or early 90s. This sublimely hot totally mod looking black chick in a boxing ring doing all these gay 'vouge' movements with her hands - this sorta totally mod post-Grace Jones black-house tip. It was one of those mega funky Chicago-gogo style house...

I'm talking sonically, ideologically, politically? Is it M.I.A ? Coldplay? Is it Eminem? Is it all the 'queer' artists: Rufus Wrainright, antony, Le tigre...? Is it the White stripes? Missy Elliot? Seriously who would you say is really important in today's rock/pop/techno muzak climate?

It was the 'Lost in Translation' DVD that started it. At the time, seeing the film, that was unanimously praised/ hipified/everyone and their mum went and saw, the totally cool thing was that 'My Bloody Valentine' were on the s/t, but moreso, the film represented a mature and realised...