Human After All
For many of you out there, there may be none more seismic a newsflash over the festive season. The prospect of a new Daft Punk album has excited me for some time, but hang on, it’s not been mentioned on The Raft, only NME from w[…]

how INADVERTENT experiment created ALL SCIENCE
(a “pumpkin publog” co-production)[…]

“console yrself with the new bleep pop”
this wz the headline in metro – so i don’t actually know what the “new bleep pop” is exactly, as i couldn’t read over the fellow bus traveller’s shoulder w/o mak[…]

I’m Dreaming Of An Office Christmas Vol. 2
This CD is significantly less likely to be played as it pushes the boat of quality somewhat further out. It will still get a spin round my place, though.
1. EDDY ARNOLD – “I’m Your Pr[…]

Grinch Alert
Last year, following the travesty of Gary Jules, there was much in-pub joshery about how miserable piano-led covers would be the HOT NEW THING. Ha ha, we smugly thought, it will never ACTUALLY happen. But here on Radio 1 is Chris Martin […]

Dave S decided to fill that empty void by starting Breaking Ranks.[…]

They are the eggmen, we are the victims — Anthony M found this and we trembled in fear/laughed uproariously in untrammelled glee/both (choose as appropriate): a modern day version of Styx covering “I Am the Walrus”. It’s not t[…]

I’m Dreaming Of An Office Christmas
Volume I of the background CDs for the work do, with thanks to everyone who gave me suggestions.
1. THE DRIFTERS – “White Christmas”(1)
2. JACK SCOTT – “Jingle Bell Slide”([…]

My dark secret!
I was talking about this with Dr T last week and I realised the awful truth….
I don’t really give a monkey’s about the latest round of the ‘rockism debate’. Or much else.
More power and total respect to t[…]

And now “We Are the World” part two! — oh good god:
Jermaine Dupri has been called on to produce an updated version of one of the (if not the) most legendary collaborations of all time, “We Are the World.”
“It&#821[…]