OHJ Blog: I like this – discussions of mostly indie music but with a nice relaxed, chatty, inquisitive feel.[…]

Hot on the heels of Mamma Mia and We WIll Rock You – a Stevie Wonder musical is premiering in Las Vegas. It appears to use songs in both the key of life and the other keys employed by Stevie during his career to tell a story – though unfo[…]

Occasionally we throw up a useful resource, and here is a web one for you. Sportspubs – does pretty much what you would imagine. Its remit is to merely to judge pubs from the perspective of watching sport in them. Its nicely designed (Fancyapin[…]

DUEL 2002! — Round 1 Match 11

Duel 2002 – Round 1 Match 11

Which Of These Two Bands Is Worse?

Coldplay

Weezer

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Over to Pete for the lowdown on these combatants:
‘Songs abo[…]

Pete Townshend on the subject of rock opera’s – obviously countering a previous wafer thin critique on the same by Sean O’Hagen. Rock Opera’s along with concept albums are still seen as fantastically naff ideas. How dare pop […]

IHM LYRIC WATCH:
XTC: Mayor Of Simpleton
?Never been near a University?
So was it some sort of XTC tribute band (Ex-TC maybe) that played the following gigs:
April 21 1979 – University College, Dublin
April 22 1979 – Queen’s Univer[…]

Everything’s Gone Green…
So, have we really got something here? Something that’s got the proverbial zeitgeist by the short and curlies? We’re (being who, Jess? Music geeks basically, the people who support the fag end of th[…]

The publog – post its mass excursion to France – has been given time to consider yet again the difference between English and continental drinking habits. This time the focus no longer lies with the regulations – in some of the plac[…]

SHERYL CROW – “Soak Up the Sun”
Looks like someone’s been listening to some Whitechocolatespaceegg, with “Headache” in heavy rotation. (She even mentions Russians! In the FIRST LINE!) (Well, communists. Same th[…]

American song poems = the enclave of people who haf RAW SONGWRITING IN THEIR VEINS but just haf never managed to master the acoustical guitar and howly voice needed to be a Yankee singer/songwriter. Whot fate lies in store for these great unwashed ho[…]