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I think there are things on "Workbook" which are good, and also the title track from "Black Sheets of Rain" is good (both by Mould). And is there not some "proto-grime" on his experimental electronic album (or maybe it wasn't proto, but around the same time as the first bouts of dubstep?)...

Antony and the Johnsons. "Ohh I am a trannie with vibrato-voice". All the luvvies love it - "album of the year blah blah". It does nothing for me - apart from wanting to find the nearest bucket ... [ In the name of PC-Ness: I have nothing against trannies, trannies creating music or being...

That would mean The White Stripes would have to go in there as a canonical band? Even if Jon Spencer Blues Explosion came to market earlier, the Stripes seems to be the shortcut to Punk Blues (and bands like The Black Keys, Gin Palace and so on). Or maybe Punk Blues is not big enough as a...

I tend to like that and in some broadsheet (Times or The Guardian as those are the ones I mostly read) there was some reference in a review (for fiction!) to this practice as "being proper literature" ...

I've been through the lot from a WM2, to discman, to MD, to a 32mb MP3 player to a 40 GB iPod. Funnily enough I don't use the iPod to re-discover old stuff, I use it to find totally new stuff and fill it with MP3s found on the net (mostly legal free stuff) and mixtapes/pirate sessions. As...

1. create audio any way you like, but make sure the end product is MP3 and that it sounds reasonable when played on an MP3 player 2. store this MP3 file somewhere sensible on the net and make sure you have the bandwith as mentioned (be prepared for ie Chinese listeners looking for mp3s...

You are wrong. Shitloads of them do feature uncleared music, some of the casts even feature adverts ... Loads of them begging "vote for me" on podcastalley etc. the best ones I've found are: Marvin Suicide for mostly electronic stuff at http://www.marvinsuicide.org/ Warren Ellis' Mixtapes (no...

that's spot on Blissblogger. And with the focus on the song comes the RE-action to it. The OPPOSITE of song. Namely prog-rock, concept albums and really _long_ songs (well - the idea of cramming as much as possible into one piece - ie the first track of Jaga Jazzist's new CD).

- pointless and clueless cover versions (Eva effing Cassidy anyone?) - Joy Divison covers (see above - even Cadence Weapon can't resist trying) - Swedish dance bands ("svensktoppar") - my greatest hate of all: there are NO redeeming features in any song I have ever heard - "happy music" - like...

On the London tube yesterday: A 19 or so old year very fit (sixpack and all) girl, see-through linen trousers, no shirt, just a black bikini top, big shades. Super confident. In her lap: a lime-green Zen Micro MP3-player. Her attitude and shades saying: "you can look at me - but know that I am...

I've got a feeling that the Red Hot Chilli Peppers might create something really great one day (as in stick to less than 50 minutes of music and really let those outside influences they sometimes quote get through).

All songs don't sound exactly the same live as they do on record. The older tunes sounded better live in my ears (Brixton last year) (cut&paste from a piece written after the gig in Brixton a year ago on Autobahn): it’s a brilliant version, starting with a motor being breathed into life (a...

there's a piece on skype in the latest (August 2005) PC Pro magazine. seems like you can get handsets which plugs directly into your ADSL-router etc - now we are talking! the magazine is well worth investing in anyway this "month". normally you get all sorts of crappy and unusable (what do I...

The Damned's motorway version of "Help"

personal favs not mentioned (Biosphere and Harris the only probable ones to go in a magazine canon, Rip&Burn did 100 "Essential electronic tracks" or so without listing "Popcorn"): Biosphere (who the hell is Aphex Twin?) Bob Mould Morphine Tindersticks "Wrecking Ball"/Emmylou Harris ---- And...

in Ballard's Super-Cannes (2000) you have the bored professionals (doctors, bankers etc) going out on violent sprees filming themselves raping, beating the shit out of innocent people etc - for both immediate satisfaction and later enjoyment/reliving on the screen. Ballard got the class (?) and...

I'll rather ask BB King, Bo Diddley ("my white brother"), Ike Turner ("Rocket 88" might or might not be the first Rock&Roll record ), Howlin' Wolf ("he started from the blues, he made his pull from the blues"), Little Richard etc about Elvis. The "Elvis stole black music"-line from Chuck D did...

Wrong again. Scandinavia is Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Add Finland and Iceland and you get the Nordic countries. If you ask someone from one of the Nordic countries about what Scandinavia is, then that's the answer you are likely to get. I guess the English aversion from using the term...

Another tight bastard ;-) Reading whole articles "while browsing" seems to be acceptable here in England (at least in the WH Smiths in and around London), back home in Norway it isn't (some security guard or the kiosk owner will come over if the reading session is starting to get too long...

The Lomov tangent - Haare from Finland - free MP3 pieces at http://music.download.com/haare/3600-8622_32-100397856.html (It might be a one man band, if anyone has more info on Haare I wouldn't mind).