“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 &[…]

Cover versions are one thing, plagiarism is a whole different kettle of fish. Or in this case kettle of no fish – a classic silly season article which actually has a potentially important idea at the heart of it. Copyright exists for the reason[…]

It’s as predictable that I’d carp at a bad UK hip-hop review in Pitchfork as it is that the zine would run one in the first place. But actually I’m not complaining about the mark, or the verdict really – I’ve not been th[…]

OT, apologies: I’ve had a few emails from people wondering why the lack of updates to the Atommick Brane and I think the majority of you read this – there are problems with Blogger and templates which are meaning that I can’t publis[…]