I occasionally get press releases from bands and DJ’s offering their services to my University. Here is one I got today. Notice the so called “massive saving”.
FANTASTIC OFFER FROM ONE OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY’S BIGGEST NAMES! F[…]

More news in on downloading music
Compare “Record sales in the US have fallen because of people using the internet to download albums, a study suggests” and contrast “US CD sales rose by 2.3% in 2004”
(BBC news stories 3 days […]

“Schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp”
Sounds good to me. Can’t be worse than Mike Read, anyway.[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
98. Deee-Lite – “Groove Is In The Heart”
A song that makes me feel slightly old, as it has become a standard in my listening lifetime. And a real, top-ranking standard, too, up there with “Celebration&#822[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
99. Madonna – “Papa Don’t Preach”
Pete says
On the day this list was made I was kindly given Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection, which means that I finally own a copy of “Papa Don’t Prea[…]

Popjustice on LastFM
If you are signed up to LastFM (and it’s not difficult) then you can listen to RADIO POPJUSTICE (top right hand corner). Just been listening and heard: New Order – Perfect Kiss, Magnetic Fields – Let’s Pre[…]

“Always a wonderfully dangerous choice”
Reef to win Best British Live Act then…[…]

Oh no.
One of the side effects of the first Band Aid single was that every tragedy had an associated charity single. There are two rationales for any charity single – raise awareness and raise money. In general it’s hard to get too upset […]

An OLD MAN and a WISE MAN are sitting on a bench.
WISE MAN: Tell me, Old Man, if you had one piece of advice to give young students, what would it be?
OLD MAN: I would tell them to be neither too proud or too ashamed of their music taste. The music y[…]

Judge for yourself as long as the link works. My immediate thought was “This reminds me of nothing so much as Siouxsie’s “Face to Face” song from the second Batman run through a squelchifier” crossed with Disco Tex&#821[…]