VAN DYKE PARKS – Song Cycle
I’d heard so much about this album that I was actually nervous about hearing it, some years after it acquired a personal status as a kind of masterpiece of the mind. And the thing that immediately strikes me a[…]

Stop Making Sense: a short review of the Talking Heads’ film-soundtrack ‘classic’. Not sure if it works, but see what you think. Oh! And I’ve redesigned Freaky Trigger a bit, too.[…]

Ironminds: The Price is Wrong: Good grief! Mike was right and this is a really good article in Ironminds. I’ve very little to add, really – it’s a thoughtful piece on collector overpricing, and the implications of eBay and Napster f[…]

THE GO-BETWEENS – “Going Blind”
The Go-Betweens set the gold standard for sensitivity coupled with intelligence coupled with fearsomely good tunes, and in doing so I’m sure ruined many a young life: out in the real world there[…]

It’s been a while since I linked to Dancing About Architecture, which is odd since they’ve been on somewhat of a roll recently, and this week sees editor Rob Brookman write a handy one-page primer on African pop music. Other people might […]