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    The Trouble with Lawyers

    As someone who recently graduated law school and passed the New York bar, but has yet to motivate himself to get a job working as a lawyer, I took some interest in the heated exchange between K-Punk and Luka concerning lawyers. Here's the best reason for thinking ill of lawyers. They are...
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    Bad Taste and the "Sublime" in Music

    Back in the days when we simply read other people's blogs, one of the most interesting exchanges that I encountered, on K-Punk, Woebot, Blissblog, concerned "bad taste" in pop music. For the most part, the discussion centered on how it was considered in "bad taste," circa 1985 to 2000, to like...
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    How Big is the UK Old-School Rave/Breakbeat Hardcore Scene?

    Curious to know. Judging from remarks in John Bitumen's "Happy Hardcore" thread, there are still a lot of pirate stations that play classic jungle and hardcore??? And I've head that in the North of England many of the clubs that used to play Northern Soul have now changed over to playing Old...
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    kudu -- "boom boom" -- forthcoming on nublu

    Kudu is the best NYC dance music act I've encountered in some time. (Actually, they're originally from Boston, and earlier versions of the group performed on the American rave scene.) One part d'n'b, one part stripped-down early 80s, one part wondrous diva vocalist. Primal electronic sound...
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