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So what musicians/genres/eras are so crap, so awful that not even the smuggest pop ironist or broadminded eclectic could find even a glimmer of worth, or even camp value in them? Do they even exist any more? Suggestions please. No overly-personal choices, try and be reasonably objective as...

Heard/read this phrase a few times, what does it refer to? I gather it comes from some strain of 80s pomo thought.

Met somebody this weekend who reckons he makes around £20,000 a year selling records on ebay. Dunno if it was drunken bullshit, but do people actually do this as their sole means of support? He mentioned he sells vintage platters as well as new stuff that looks like it might become collectable...

Gime me some good books/short stories to read. Quality New Wave/Cyberpunk stuff, no trash or space operas. It would be cool also if they've been stuck up on line somewhere to read for free.

http://www.curbly.com/DIY-Maven/posts/680-How-to-Make-a-Folded-Paper-CD-Case I've made a couple of these, they can look quite smart if you get the hang of it. Do you reckon this would work for a 7 inch record sleeve, perhaps made with slightly thicker paper/card?

Wow. I saw him on the South Bank show last night, and he had sold that giant atonomy model thing for a million quid. Then he said he'd bought back some of his early work for £6 million from Saatchi, after making "£25-30 million" from a single show! I knew he was well-off, but I had know idea the...

I'm sure you will all be pleased to hear that I have decided to form a nu-grunge band named "Turd". We will be heavily influenced by Bush, Sliltskin, Moist, The Stone Temple Pilots and hot new acts like Nickleback, Staind and Creed. I'm in the process of growing a purple goatee like my hero, the...

Think of all the lives rock 'n' roll has fucked up through dashed dreams of stardom, de rigeur drug addictions, its grotesque portrial of "chicks", its ineffectual efforts to stick it to "the man", its racist wholesale plunder of the blues, the idea that positive social change can come from...

From an interview they did a couple of years back: 1. Klymaxx—a group of girls who sang that popular song "Meeting In The Ladies Room" 2. Serge Ponsard—he's a real obscure techno funk master that copies all popular songs in his own way 3. I-Level—this is an English band so you guys should know...

If there isn't going to be any further musical innovation now, does that mean that music will basically be the same ten or twenty years from now? The charts will still be full of cheese-house, indie bands, commercial gangsta rap and bland acoustic singer songwriters? That 2016's music "scene"...

I have to admit this is one strand of dance music/electronica that pisses me off. I suppose there are old-school gems like Three Feet High and Rising or Paul's Boutique, but it's been really grating and tired for me for ages now. We've had at least fifteen years of this stuff: DJ Shadow, Mr...

Why does everybody always insist on people "sharing" their feelings with others? There seems to be a lot more dignity in keeping certain things to yourself. Everytime I've ever really told someone how I deeply felt or something important from my past or whatever, I didn't feel better, I just...

It's just not where the action's at now. Sad but true. Where is the action now? What are the important forms of expression? Fucked if I know.

So, is the widely touted view that the Democrats may now gain a majority in the Senate accurate? And how much real influence over policy would they have if this is case? There's also a theory that it's better for them not to have control over the senate because then they're open to attack over...

So what is the precise definition of a "halfstep" beat? Is it just slowed down, sparse Reese beats? What is the first halfstep tune, is it "Pulse X"? What are some good examples in Grime and Dubstep?

Well, I don't think so really, but Brian Eno does. I was reading an interview with him from a couple of years ago in one of my mates' music technology mags. (Sorry, I don't think it's online) Anyway, it struck a chord with me. His basic argument was: anyone with a modicum of taste can knock up...

This seems as good a place as any to ask for advice... Been living back at home with my parents on the Wirral for about a year now after living with some old school mates in a shared house in Liverpool. I've worked in office admin since leaving sixth form, but my mates have all either moved...

I was thinking today about Scritti Politti's transition from noisy post-punkers into slicked out hi-tech R'n'B flavoured pop. Do you think there's any potential for the current crop of indie straggers to finally get fitted up for decent suits,(no chucks or jeans), decent haircuts, put the...

I'm curious to hear a few more of the late seventies to mid eighties electropop/EBM/italo acts like Kraftwerk (natch), DAF, Liaisons Dangereuses, etc, that influenced early techno and house pioneers like Derrick May and Juan Atkins. Are there any compilations/mixes I could check out? It's fun...

I reckon it could happen. Think about electro in 1997-2000, such an underground scene, you had I.F., Dopplereffekt, a few tracks on Gigolo, it was the ultimate 'spotters genre, since most other dancefloor forms had been commercially exploited to some extent. Look at minimal now, it's in pretty...