Have you heard this, josh? if not, you should coax tom into making you a copy.
For me, it’s quite revelatory: if i was jason pierce, i’d be majorly pissed off at the writers of “can’t help falling in love” for nixing th[…]

Both songs are in waltz time (3/4, or at least 6/8, but close enough) – but it took me until this week to realize it (typical). Any odd time signature is a funny thing – for whatever reason, we’re so accustomed to 4/4 and similarly […]

cf. Stereolab thirty years ago.[…]

cf. Stereolab with a Brummie accent.[…]

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Enough intellectualism! On a far more interesting note, I find on Teletext today (Channel 4 p141 for anyone who’s interested) that your favourite crossover R&B/UK garage star Craig David is the subject of a bidding war between two US majors[…]

“One of my cymbal patterns is more rebellious than their entire recorded output, which is just a waste of plastic” – Liam Howlett of the Prodigy on Chumbawamba.
Fred asked a few months ago what people felt was the reason that they l[…]

Hi, my name is fred. as many of you know, i have my own blog called steal this blog! while tom’s off on holiday, he asked me to fill-in for him. as such, i’ll promise to try to stay on the topic of music, “try” being the opera[…]

“Pitchfork Review:” us|against|them. OK, so (almost) nobody entered uat’s contest. Who cares, the winning entry is fantastic (scroll down a bit, there you go). I’m not even sure the reviewer being toasted didn’t secretly[…]

I like sweets and the KLF. I relax by listening to classic hip hop records from 1983 and watching Only Fools And Horses. On a bad day I may rate Toytown Techno as possibly the fourth greatest musical genre of all time. On other days I may listen to s[…]