Revealing post on Troubled Diva showing the respective most-played-artists on BBC Radio 1, Radio 2 and 6Music, as revealed by last.fm – ‘urban’ station 1Xtra’s stats are in the comments boxes, which focus on a telling observa[…]

Maze War is the grand-daddy of not only first-person shooters, but also networked multi-player games like World of Warcraft. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are mazes in WoW, Second Life etc, as they are the nursey-slopes for 3D environment cr[…]

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Lost in Trance-Nation: Mark leads the way with Alix, Alan, Meg and Steve on Knobs.

Of course, the best thing about S4C whilst I was growing up in the north-west was getting to watch Countdown on poorly tuned S4C in the telly in my room, then trotting downstairs to where my parents were watching English Channel 4 in the living room […]

 
Flemish chart record-breaker![…]

After last weeks high concept high art piece, lets go back a bit to a time when book jackets were not all airbrushed wasps and TV-Tie-ins. This cover to The Body In The Library is still pretty high concept, and designed nicely without a computer in s[…]

“that alluring mixture of bravado, frustration and loss”[…]

This morning I discovered that the new toothpaste I bought had vanished. Knowing my 1-year-old son’s love of raiding shopping bags I worked out quickly what had happened to it: the where proved more elusive, and to avoid being late I decided to[…]

Canadian indie-rock[…]