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What’s on your RIO?
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What’s on your RIO?: My new MP3 player is just so lovely, even if it is objectively speaking an overpriced gew-gaw which is a hassle to update all the time. But from my single-holic point of view, it’s a treat. What have I been listening […]

Finally a reply to Western Homes
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Finally I get round to replying to Western Homes, whose mention of us last Wednesday has sparked a monster flood of hits at precisely the point at which my social life explodes, my sleeping patterns head west and my weblogging as a result goes comple[…]

Ain’t Nuttin’ But A G Thang For Becks
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Ain’t Nuttin’ But A G Thang For Becks – fantastic! Apparently the newspaper New Nation claimed that David Beckham was “a walking tribute to Tupac Shakur”.
This news has been out a month, so why has no one jumped on it? […]

New PopJustice and Splendid
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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. There’s a new PopJustice up (only one joke, but a good one) and about a billion reviews of bands I know nothing about (a surefire mark of quality, go get ’em kids) at Splendid.[…]

The Great Tune Robbery
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The Great Tune Robbery – in which the NME reports the “news” that the chords to Travis’ “Writing To Reach You” are the same as the chords to “Wonderwall”. This comes as no surprise to anyone who’s[…]

Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
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Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP: you will roll your eyes when you read the review, and if you wish to laugh like a dog when you see the accompanying photo, I cannot stop you. Ken Tucker drops in a Genet reference to show he’s a clever guy, then[…]

Star guests on first Go-Betweens album for 12 years
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Star guests on first Go-Betweens album for 12 years: (link via Fred, who’s been keeping the music blog flame alive during my relative inactivity). Well, on the one hand it’s a new Go-Betweens album. On the other hand it’s a new Go-B[…]

For a Rock Aesthetic
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For a Rock Aesthetic “It is quite pathetic to read essay by Wilfred Mellers, Ned Rorem or Tony Palmer concerned with comparing the Lennon-McCartney songbook to Schubert or Poulenc, as if work in the genre of ‘song’ could have any ae[…]

CV of CV
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CV of CV: dry but informative Caetano Veloso biography, from the altogether more colourful Caravan Music, a one-stop shop for Brazilian music.[…]

All Music Sucks
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Face it, every single note of music ever committed to paper, vinyl, CD, zeroes and ones sucks harder than Linda Lovelace in a sucking competition with a black hole. There is absolutely nothing going for music. It just plain sucks.
“Wait a minut[…]

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  1. A fantastic collection of music highlights from 2003! The detailed commentary and diverse selection make this a fun and engaging…

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