hmph my final para is very nearly as tricksily coded as the code it aims to decode, so to further murkify i shall just add this… A. cf marcello’s post abt Pink Floyd below; and B. where i think Dissensian Disdain for the Pro-Pop Massive ([…]

Here you can download a Tuvan throat singing duo covering Love Can Tear Us Apart, and its amazing, hard, low, moaning–and as sad as anything, at first its a novelty, but throat singing always seems to be better at tragic then comic, and the bar[…]

A short ambivalent history of the non event
i own a little green second-hand book, dated 1982, called “the politics of the pop festival” (michael clarke, junction books), which opens with the newport jazz festival of 1954, and passes, via[…]

lord blob’s mission accomplished, says ilm[…]

Here is how you become a pop star.
1. Go to record company.
2. Say “I am a celebrity can I put a single out?”
3. Repeat 1 and 2 until someone says “Yes”
4. Release record.
5. If the record is good enough* you will now be a pop[…]

Shock! Horror! Dylan sells rights to music to be played in EVIL StarbuXor. As the cossetted article points out, Dylan has been doing this for forty years. And anyone can play any record in a shop they like if its had a commercial release (its covered[…]

There will be much, much more on this front but from a pure visceral piece of musical fun there was really only one place to be in Glastonbury. That was the Roots stage in the Dance Village which unfortuantely also seemed to only ever have about thir[…]

YOU DECIDE can ads PWN good art? is the art PWNd by ads good?
when ILM is funny it is very very funny[…]

For those of us not down at Worthy Farm this weekend who sort of wish we were, 30 seconds out of every minute.
Alvin Lucier ‘I Am Sitting In A Room’
Dru Hill ‘In MY Bed’
Samantha Fox ‘Love House’
Basement Jaxx &#82[…]

If this is true, and BB has had Maxwell “shelling prawns to the sounds of Aqua, Chesney Hawkes and Mr Blobby” then can we assume that a) BB is trying to ease the strains of the task by playing dickboy great pop tunes; or b) BB hates fun?[…]