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I know (or rather I don't?) - and that's why the BBC should do such a series.

Rambler - is there a website/book/cd-box recommended to enlighten us who have just peeked through the slit in the curtains of 20th century classical music? (well poetic that, and not very clear either, but hey) No Webern downloads were probably due to copyright issues (I missed it), but for...

"Summer in the City"/ The Lovin' Spoonful - for that first hot day of summer "Can You Feel It"/The Jackson 5 "Seven Nation Army"/The White Stripes "18"/Alice Cooper "Kicking On"/Gin Palace "Popcorn"/Hot Butter "Ace of Spades"/Motorhead "Silver Machine"/Hawkwind "Unarthadox daughta"/No Lay

a decent weekly/bi-weekly programme on "youth music" on BBC2. Outside of "Top of the Pops/Jools Hooland" land - ie a slight alternative view on music from dubstep to punkblues to modern jazz to grime to deathmetal and dance etc. they've done the Beethoven download MP3 series and are to embark on...

No choosing those 60K songs - it's there in the FAQ: So there's the catch, an ever changing selection to get for those 50 quid and then 29p for the rest? Might be worth to do a dummy account to test it - there's some decent music for free by just registering with a dummy email etc. What you...

the MAN has spoken (Jakob Nielsen that is) . If you are only going to read on article on blogging tips this autumn etc ...

not only the that - that green bio-slush will probably also slow down an incoming hurricane (sucking up some serious energy), plus the oil infrastructure is already there (pipes, refineries etc) so it would be easier to get the whole thing started. Even if the idea might not work - it seems like...

A report in the Sunday Times today ("Waiting for thecomments_closed> <p>Comments are closed for this article</p> </txp:glx_if_comments_closed> </code> </pre> <p>Thanks to <a href="http://compooter.org/">Compooter</a> for this idea</p> <hr />...

NewzCrawler if you are prepared to pay, SharpReader if you are not (both Windows). Or Bloglines if you prefer a "Hotmail" approach to reading RSS.

Did Dylan ever do anything which was new sonically? He was hardly to first to sing electrically amplified folk tunes. Hardly revolutionary ... but even that old rebellion Mick Farren describes how much he liked Dylan in his tome "Give the Anarchist a Cigarette" - so clearly I've got some...

The Cure were an important band. I like them primarily for the spare sound on the first album. An album which along with other cut-to-the-bones sounding stuff like Talking Heads "'77", The Modern Lovers and possibly things like the Young Marble Giants were on the edge of the new-wave and not...

I would be surprised if this re-recording business was a first in rock? (not counting live and unplugged records). Although the closest I can think of right now is Bernard Szajner's "Superficial Music" (1981) which is (Nessie runs down to the living room to get the cover out and it reads)...

which reminds me of the top 10 most ridiculous black metal pics ever and the the other top 10 black metal pics - hilarious.

try this one for a real showdown (and be glad you are not swimming in these waters) Alligator vs Python in US Swamp fight (CNN) BBC also has the story, with larger picture.

I don't think there has been a weak Robicheaux book yet (although the latest one "Crusader's Cross" is not yet in the household), so you might as well start at the beginning? A Chronlogical list of Burke's novels. If not try "Last Car to Elysian Fields", the gothic "In the Electric Mist with...

The whole Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke is a treat.

This guy has been quite good recently for looking at ways to organize large digital music collections http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/plamere/Weblog?catname=%2Fmusic

all this attention to Dylan is sickening, and to make it worse in ten years time we might read about U2 and in twenty years about Coldplay the same way ... some paper wrote that you cannot pidgeonhole Dylan - well let me try: squeaky-voiced overrated troubadour. and the cultural shock when he...

On the high street outside the Whitgift shopping centre today - kids spit-preaching God grime (and some hip-hop) for a "gospel concert" at the Fairfield Hotel tonight. The flyer reads "Gospel Concert" and "Soul - RNB - Hip Hop - Garage". Grime - the new gospel? Let's hope not.

aggro is one thing. What I really do not understand is the people throwing themselves on moving trains. I've seen a women do this on a moving slamdoor train, opening the door Western-movie style and getting in as the train was leaving the platform. The next train to Victoria station leaving...