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I think the sequencing is part of the problem with E.IG. On the way to work I listened to all the short tracks and the 'The End of Radio' at the end, ditched 'Lulabell' altogether, and it works so much better. 'End of Radio' just screams end of the album closing finale, and fitted just right at...

For me they've never really bettered "At Action Park". They're always a good listen in as much as they're a killer tight band, and Albini's production captures their playing just right. But they've never had as well honed material as on the first album, and there's too much self indulgent...

Am I just being really dense here? Surely drum and bass still very much exists, how can there be a revival? It's not like it's ceased to exist like rave. Knowledge is still in newsagents, a lot of the artists/labels are still around. Next week, the Arctic Monkeys revival.

At the Cornelia Parker exhibition years ago where one of the artworks was Tilda Swinton in a glass case, one of the other exhibits was the printing press that guy used to print his book. It was this amazing old hand cranked thing which had been patched up with bits of driftwood.

I used to live with a guy who worked at the Camden one a few years ago who would relate tales of 'man with two piles', 'classical nazi' and various others. When I was seeing a lot of films in town on a Saturday night, going home there was always an old guy sitting on his own on the northbound...

I love the Beastie Boys, mainly for Check Your Head. I know that Pauls Boutique usually gets cited as their best, but I'm not mad on it, but for me CYH is the last great sprawling, genre crossing album maybe ever, worthy of comparison to Exile on Mainstreet or Double Nickels on the Dime...

I'd say Fresh belongs in anyone's collection, and Small Talk is pretty fine also. Likewise 'High On You'. Everything up to there is well worth having.

Sounds like a recipe for bankruptcy to me. Opening a huge new shop just as record shops are closing all over, and the existing ones don't look like their doing a roaring trade on the rae occasions I go in these days - and I'm someone who used to spend every Saturday doing nothing except going...

Aren't radio stations supposed to pay some kind of composers royalties on music they play? Presumably as a pirate station they're not doing that.

I hate that cunt from The Darkness more than any other musician ever. I hope Brian Harvey and the Atomic Kitten beat his ass like a gong.

The Sean Price album I like a lot. I think he's my favourite MC out there right now, albeit a bit of an ultra un PC guilty pleasure.

The new El-P's a big disappointment to me, and I love Fan Dam and all his productions for various other acts (the track at the end of the Can Ox live thing was really good, likewise the Perceptionist tracks he did). I was fearing an indie crossover, given that Trent Reznor, Mars Volta etc were...

I've been exploring and massively enjoying Fugazi's later albums recently. If more current rock was like this I'd be genuinely interested. Given how many supposedly 'punk' or Gang of Four influenced groups there are around who are just piss poor, I'm surprised Fugazi weren't bigger. But sadly...

Definitely agree. The way it just builds and builds is amazing. I feel physically wrung out by the end of it.

You can never have too much Carl Craig.

That Deep Chord vs. Octal Industries singles was good, and I'd forgotten about that Boards of Canada ep. Is there stuff on that Psyche/BFC thing that's not otherwise available?

Those are a good cheap price, but are they safe and stable stacked on top of each other? It says 'modular', but there doesn't seem to be anything that fixes them together.

I guess it stems from the history of the NME, and indie rock seeing itself as a child of punk, which traditionally had some alliance with reggae through The Clash etc, and with hip-hop. Sadly, the NME of today is a shadow of the 80's when you might find Derrick May or Troublefunk actually on the...

I didn't like it on first hearing either, but I gave it a second chance a few months later as it was being raved about in some quarters, and it's a real grower. On reflection, i think it's one of their best.

Only real stand outs for me, off the top of my head: Burial album Convextion album The Roots - Game Theory Clipse - Hell Hath No fury