SECTION 25
From the Hip
I’ve had Section 25 CDs for a while now but it was only with the purchase of the Deus Ex Machina collection that I felt properly prompted to give everything an ear, disc by disc (at least the way LTM has them released). […]

Quiet here today innit? However I’m writing like mad about music in lots of other places: Popular inches on and I’ve been writing about songs which may or may not be about London at Blog Seven (our new ‘thing’). I’ve als[…]

POP FACTOR: 596 CONTROVERSY SCORE:
I’m not proud of losing touch with hip-hop, even the most commercial big-production hip-hop, so much but facts are facts and that’s what’s happened. All it needs I’m sure is one or two grea[…]

“You will worship dEUS”
Although I’m not the die-hard dEUS fans I used to be, I still keep track of all things gODly. So, after his film and his collaboration with CJ Bolland, Tom Barman has decided to produce a new dEUS single,&#82[…]

This album grabbed me from the beginning: I have an article in progress on soul music in which I refer to “the peerlessly composed intro to Al Green’s ‘Love And Happiness’”, and that intro is sampled for the first track.
It&#8[…]

Caribbean cover versions with the wrong words
Among the many pleasures in reggae cover versions is that they don’t take a great deal of trouble to get the lyrics correct. This was spurred by listening to yet another Trojan Box Set, this the Reg[…]

John Michael Montgomery
Letters To Home
All the country stations I listen to are attaching this track to pro-war/pro-soldier campaigns. This is because it manages to combine the concrete and the abstract in a really banal way. Nothing is metioned abo[…]

SABALON GLITZ
Ufonic
Or, whatever happened to that one guy that was supposedly going to be famous, 1341541564th in a series.
For the first time, I’m getting around to listening to the (I think) one album by Chicago group Sabalon Glitz from ba[…]

Yesterday I was half-listening to the radio, when Jo Whiley started playing this thing she’d downloaded off the Internet. “Slash dot dash, slash dot com”, over and over again. It sounded really cheap, some joke MP3 knocked up by one[…]

STAND AND DELIVER!
I actually sorta think that the last few years in particular have been a bit of a golden age when it comes to what I increasingly think is ‘my’ (borrowed) era of music, seen through a distorting lens of time and from th[…]