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Recently started drinking way more cocktails than is probably healthy (for wallet or body). At home and out and about. Basically anything short, very strong, and not too sweet. Martini, Manhattan, Daiquiri, Old Fashioned, Bourbon Sour, Gimlet, Margarita, Rob Roy. Any of those are winners as...

Today's Guardian...

Really interesting article about it in The Believer magazine here, too.

The Code Seraphinianus used to be available on the Internet Archive here, but the file doesn't seem to be hosted on the server anymore. Maybe submit an error report and it might get reposted?

When you say no Gnarls Barley do you mean 'Crazy' in particular, or all of their work? Because that first album deals with mental illness on a lot of its tracks, and I think that some of them might be worth a listen if you haven't heard them before. This in particular: Also 'I Hear Voices'...

You can just double click on the location I think? Only zooms you in one level at a time, but you get there in the end. Also if you put your cursor over a location and use the scroll wheel I think it zooms in or out on that location.

Can vouch for Wax Poetics on the back of the one issue I've ever read (the reggae issue, from some time last year). Really interesting, in-depth interviews, although I think some of them were reprints from now-defunct magazines, foreign magazines, or out-of-print books. The use of archive...

iconolo.gy is pretty good. It's not exclusively photography (about 3/4 maybe?), but there's a lot of interesting work featured, with a pretty even split between documentary, fashion and 'art' work. US Historians has a lot of good themed posts, but the quality of individual pictures on there is...

I used to think that Russell Brand was a massive knob, and then I saw him being interviewed by Paxman, and now I think that maybe he's actually a pretty sound guy who just acts like a knob the vast majority of the time he's in the public eye for some unapparent reason.

'Based' which he did with Lil B is produced by Frank Dukes I think, who's done beats for 50 Cent and A.Z. in the past. Speaking of Lil B I got Clams Casino's instrumental mixtape a couple of weeks ago and it's been on pretty constant rotation ever since. Some of the most interesting beats I've...

Anyone catch the Black Star/Rakim/De La Soul gig at the Hammersmith Apollo last week? I made the gig up here at the Academy in Manchester, but De La Soul got held up down south so never made it. Was just curious to know what anyone who saw them thought of their performance. For my money Rakim...

ta folks. seems it's more readily available than i was expecting. could probably have done a bit more research there...

I was reading an interview with Chris Blackwell (Island Records founder) in Wax Poetics magazine, and he was talking about how after the Wailers recorded Catch a Fire the tracks were taken to the UK and had extensive overdubbing work done on them to help market the group more as a black rock...

I think the cup thing comes from the fashion in hip hop culture for drinking sizzurp (codeine-based cough syrup mixed with soda or fruit juice) in the southern US. That kind of drowsy, sedated headfeel you get from that kind of medication enhances the sonic effect of chop and screw rap music...

I went to Cambridge Uni for three years. For what it's worth, I had to work so hard that I had virtually no time for going out properly, even on the weekend. Plus, most students there aren't allowed to take even part time employment during term time, which means if (like me) you aren't from a...

This is a bit of a long shot but I'm going to try it anyway... I'm trying to track down a copy of a novel called The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar by the Sierra Leonean poet and novelist Syl Cheney-Coker. It was published in the UK in 1990 as part of the same Heinemann African Writers...

You people rock my socks. Ta very much. I can sense a good weekend coming on...

Happy New Year first of all! I mostly lurk on here without posting, but suddenly this seemed the natural place to turn, as there's always some pretty deep musical knowledge on display on these boards. Couldn't see another thread dedicated to the topic, so here we go. Having listened to roots...

You could try Cry Freetown. It is a more general documentary about the civil war in Sierra Leone, but if you know anything about that conflict you'll know that children obviously have to form a significant part of its focus. I have read that Children of War is very good, but I haven't seen...

I think that's a large part of the problem when it comes down to public support. To paint with very broad brushstrokes, in the beginning there was the industrial revolution and mass urbanisation of the UK. That created a huge class of urban labourers who were pretty much universally exploited...