trife hide yr eyes as the us left PICK THEIR FAVORITE LPs:
a lot of pretty nice if highly orthodox records, almost all from very long ago, with little evidence here (militant anti-rockist a.cockburn aside)* of agile or inquisitive or even listening […]

“singer who defied musical categories…”
but “musical categories” are of course only defined with hindsight, not in advance: a more accurate (or do i mean helpfully argumentative?) description might be “singer who […]

Fine Ray Charles piece by Marcello. (Update – also explore and listen to Tofu Hut’s memorial post)
I don’t know Ray Charles’ work well enough; another example of the (slightly shameful if hardly unique to me) syndrome where so[…]

The Streets, by Me: enormous thanks to Mr. Matos, not only for asking me to do this but also for his stern but excellent editing when I turned out to be embarrassingly ring-rusty in the ‘writing longer pieces’ arena.[…]

The Number One Songs In Heaven: new MP3 blog (they endure despite the yousendit catastrophe!) specialising in 60s – 80s soul, dance and funk – very welcome I think![…]

Loretta Lynn-Van Lear Rose.
Loretta is a stronger singer, better writer and more complex personae here then i have seen in a long time–she seems happier too. It would have been an almost perfect album, if it wasn’t for a bukkake of Jack W[…]

Eau De Leathery Child-Man, anyone?[…]

In The Summertime
We’d like to remind you of the Club Freaky Trigger Glastonbury Reunion night, on Wednesday 30th June, at the Chapel Bar in Islington, from 7 until late-ish, FREE ENTRY, happy hour cocktails, yes it’s a Euro 2004 semi-fin[…]

JANET JACKSON – “All Nite (Don’t Stop)”
It’s official; Janet Jackson is crazy.
This has nothing to do with her alleged exercise addiction, the plastic surgeies she’s had to make herself look like the world’s […]

Traffic generation stunts
Eminem moon mooning mooned arse trouser[…]