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New Mixtape So the new Weeknd mixtape/album is out now (here), another great cover image. I've had a cursory listen whilst doing other stuff and the formula seems largely unchanged, unusual (for r&b) production and sample sources (this time it's the Cocteau Twins (I think, title seems to...

The tweet Crackerjack links above: made me very excited (they should be banged up just for fucking "Ruby", let alone looting or arson), but then I realised that they it was merely a satirical 'joke' based on their "I Predict A Riot" song. Bah. I curse myself for my stupidity and credulousness...

No mention of Cocaine 80s yet? It's a sort of supergroup comprising No I-D, James Fauntleroy and guests including Common. I've had it for a little while and it's growing on me, very distinctive sound (the name should give you some idea, though it's better than just pastiche). Here's one of the...

I watched 'Life of Rhyme' and I got fed up with the constant 'this is the new poetry' schtick, which Akala kept coming back to in his links and which was the main drive of most of the interviews. I presume Channel 4 wouldn't commission a straight documentary about the history of the British MC...

Anyone else got Aguero? Two goals and an assist off the subs bench, the boy is fire. Happy now after all my other strikers drew blanks. Well, I say 'happy', but this is the first time I've done fantasy football and it has already completely skewed the way I want results to go. I would have...

Corpsey, have you read this? Shit is stupid fesh (I like that typo. It stays). Quite aside from year-by-year breakdowns of best singles and albums (1979-1998 - it was published in 1999), you get all sorts of silliness and insight, too. (Sample lists: People Ricky Powell wishes he could have...

I approve of this. Thing is, even if it went down permanently, people would just move to Google+ and continue the cycle. I sorely doubt that most Facebook users care who has their details - posting photos of themselves looking faintly ridiculous, paying to pretend to be a farmer and being...

Ugh. Just seen this on the Guardian website: Yes, because removing the sole income of people living below the poverty line will really deter them from going looting again. How about removing the internet connection of any cunt signing that petition instead?

I have joined. Heskiboy. Cos everything is like a pitch, I own you.

I was reading this http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/0747552509/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books last week (recommended, btw) and being a book about hip hop and LA, the LA riots are discussed. I was particularly drawn to this passage: Lots of interesting and apposite points...

Me, paranoid? Who told you that?

On the same page, there's also Tempa057 by Dub War, which if memory serves is another Benny Ill alias. Exciting.

Yeah, on reflection it did seem good, actually, most of what they did have was interesting or at least credible. I'm just stingy and was disappointed by the lack of cheap stuff.

Presumably because others, like I did, have installed a complex system of mnemonic blocks to erase any memory of his caterwauling. He is, technically, I suppose, a gifted singer. But his songs, ugh.

Innit, but the point is it still gets called r&b regardless of whether it sounds like it or not. Pick up your average 'best of r&b' cd and there's no, let's say, Teedra Moses or Jazmine Sullivan, but there is JLS, Rihanna, etc. In the eyes of the industry and (most of) the public, r&b (or more...

I went here the other week, it was pretty busy; though I didn't see anyone take anything to the counter and actually buy it, there was extensive browsing and it seemed well-stocked. As with Eldica, it did seem to be slightly expensive - I guess this is inevitable to cover rent, etc, but I won't...

Hmm, I'm pretty sure Ricky Martin's career flatlined after coming out so perhaps there is more reticence among artists these days? Off the top of my head there is still Adam Lambert (who was on American Idol, and who is successful in the US, if not elsewhere) and as mentioned earlier, the...

Good work, Paolo. So if the Prem kicks off on the 13th, that gives me a week or so to think of an appalling pun-based team name, right?

I presume this is all down to it being played on that Kode9/Burial set for Mary Anne Hobbs, right? I hadn't heard it for years until it popped up there, can't think it would have been on DPR's re-issue schedule otherwise. (Tellingly, all the versions I can find on youtube were uploaded after...

Cheers for those, Sectionfive, but do you have any thoughts on the matter? Is garage making a comeback or what? As far as I can tell, Dem 2 has been off-radar for what, 6/7 years, so is the comeback now part of a wider thing signified by Ministry releasing that comp? I'm delighted to be...