I mentioned here how lousy Be Cool is as a movie. I want to reiterate here how uningaging, and uninspiring its version of the music industry is. Don’t get me wrong, I believe the music industry is a dog eat dog world where little favours work a[…]

A couple of links:
45blog is an MP3 blog whose remit is to digitise out-of-print old singles. This is the kind of thing that warms the cockles of my heart even before I’ve downloaded anything: good show, sir. Reads well, too.
This meanwhile is […]

This isn’t about judgements of quality: I just wanted to mention what is surely the soloest album of all time, Boulders by Roy Wood, the great man behind The Move, Wizzard and the only Electric Light Orchestra track I like, ‘10538 Overtur[…]

I like the sound of pan pipes. They have a delicate, burnished tone that I find very attractive. On a recent visit to Finland my wife had to take a Pan Pipes Play The Beatles compilation away from me and return it to the one euro bin. Incantation&#82[…]

MY MISSION: To find an ‘upbeat instrumental’ that could be used for a lame powerpoint montage of smiling team members around the world at an internal event.
THE OUTCOME: A short CD of (largely) instrumentals – can you guess which on[…]

Poptimism In Space (Slight Return)
(Spoilers for Dr Who Episode 2)
In episode 2 of Dr Who the character Lady Cassandra proudly displays an “iPod” which turns out to be a vinyl jukebox. It plays “Toxic” by Britney and this has […]

Murmurs 1: Wiley = Kylie
As usual I’m probably the last person on earth to hear the MP3 that’s floating around of Lethal B dissing Wiley over ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’ (“merk him with his own rhythm”). N[…]

YING YANG TWINS
“Wait” (video)
The song itself is one of the most ridiculously wonderful things around this year, whispered pervertalism as ambient microcrawl moodout funky-as-fuck genius. The video, however, is all the more enjoyable for[…]

Oi Mate, have you got “Election Day” by Arcadia?
WE CERTAINLY DO. No Poptimism in April but after that we’ve got three dates lined up at the start of May, June and July for pop club summer fun action. The first of which is 5th May w[…]

EMP Pop Conference – HELP ME OUT!
OK, now I’ve finally received by flight confirmations I no longer feel I’ll be jinxing it by mentioning it again on NYLPM (plus you probably all know anway) – I will be going to the EMP Pop Mu[…]