Tom’s Top Ten! (Lazy retro edition)
SAINT ETIENNE feat WILDFLOWER – “Soft Like You”
THE BEACH BOYS – “Surf’s Up”
BOB ANDY – “You Don’t Know”
HANK WILLIAMS SR – “Your […]

Lift To Experience – The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads
I don’t want to begin with a trope and have to carry through its execution. I don’t want an introduction giving me some context to work around; to seep into and out of. Now I am half way […]

…and worrying if there’s anything beyond it
The iPod helped, to an extent. Vacationing in Australia and New Zealand, I stuffed it with eleven days worth plus of music, mostly stuff I had sitting around that I had barely heard or just not […]

No Rock And Roll Fun does what others couldn’t be arsed to and entertainingly demolishes that ‘Conservative Top 40’ from a few days back.[…]

This One’s 4 Nicole: it’s a weblog by ILE’s Dave Q![…]

The Real Actual Bulworth: white-suited anti-corruption ex-MP Martin Bell to make hip-hop record focussing on ‘dumbing down’ in the media. “The idea for the track came from Andy Lawson, creative director of Like Minds, an ideas gener[…]

The Sixth Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group: Yes it’s FINALLY HERE![…]

IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING – AN OBSERVATION BY KING CRIMSON
An album by King Crimson, I would understand. A CD, an LP, even a work by King Crimson would make sense. But an observation? An observation is something made by lousy alternative[…]

Conservative Pop Music: via Nate P’s blog comes this list of great conservative pop songs. “Al Wilson, ‘The Snake’ (#27, 1968): explains liberalism”. I very much disagree with most of the views the guy seems to hold but […]

SAINT ETIENNE feat. WILDFLOWER – “Soft Like Me”
I feel a bit bad for giving “Action” a slagging here the other week – it does do an adequate job of leading off Finisterre but the real highpoints come later in the d[…]