Alan Lomax Dies
Alan Lomax,The Music Collecter who saved the entire history of American Folk Music on his reel to reel, has died at the age of 87 at a Sarasota Flordia Nursing Home. This was the man who recorded not only the Carter Family, Woody Guth[…]

The Jubilee Stuff – part three.[…]

Who Needs Eminem? – apart from its odd conviction that an Australian rock band can tell us anything much about how British bands think and work, Christian Hoard’s piece is a pretty fair summing-up of the British rock (and rockpress) dilem[…]

“Ours is better silence: it’s digital. Theirs is only analogue.”: more on current top music news story, Cage Vs Batt.[…]

BREAKFAST OF BANALITY 6: THE MARMALADE – O-Bla-Di O-Bla-Da
Strike one agains this record is a that it is a Lennon & McCartney song. Not only that but a Lennon & McCartney song that they were initially too embarrassed to record. Its na[…]

100 albums you should remove from your record collection: do we sense someone with a few college-rock “issues” here? One of the most disturbing things about this feature is that 99% of them are considered to be the ‘classics’ […]

pearls that are his eyes: a very welcome return for Kathleen (my current longest-standing mixtape debt, in a highly competitive field). First Josh Blog comes back , then Vain, Selfish, Lazy, now Pearls…it’s like 2000 all over again! Surel[…]

MOMUS – “King Solomon’s Mines”
I have been reading a fair amount of Near Eastern Erotic Verse for a class. Reading Sumerian, Tamil, Egyptian, Hebraic and Greek variations on the same themes get repetitive, and this song plays […]

The Jubilee Stuff (2): the second part of The Pinefox’s state-of-the-nation address.[…]

And speaking of plagiarism and cover versions, here’s a fascinating (and exhaustive) look at the history of “Mbube” (aka “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”) It’s the rather sad tale of Soloman Linda, a South African who &[…]