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Dave Stelfox interviews the guy who designs those lovely Greensleeves sleeves.
Time to repeat my biennial cry for an actual release (OK ANY release!) of Osymyso’[…]

PopNose17: this would have been the next song I posted to the block-stricken A Million Love Songs. So you can have it instead. As ever, if you know what it is (and more of you will this time), don’t tell. I’m wondering about whether to di[…]

Gretchen Williams–Redneck Woman
Gretchen Williams pretends to be the post feminist woman that all the boys want to fuck and all the girls want to be… a half camp figure, but with some serious messages as well. She wants to connect class t[…]

I realised the other day why I liked the Black Eyed Peas’ “Where Is The Love?”, Basically, it’s Americans doing a Europop tune – imagine One-T or better yet Dr.Alban doing it and you’ll see what I mean. It has just[…]

Harry Popster: In the third Harry Potter film there’s a scene where Professor Lupin puts a record on, just before HP practises some monster-fighting, so Harry’s battle with his worst fears has an incongruous (but effective) trad jazz soun[…]

In the pub last night we suddenly realised Mike Skinner’s terrifying plan. Picture the scene – June 24th, Lisboa, England in the quarter-finals of Euro 2004 – a hard-fought draw – penalties! – a disasterous miss, a natio[…]

Alex Petridis doesn’t actually compare the new Faithless album to Jacques Derrida’s Monolingualism of the Other [he could have added the subtitle for heightened effect: or, the Prosthesis of Origin]. Instead he ridicules a ‘broadshe[…]

punk rock musician in well-deserved pokey!!
sending clash songlyrics to “wrong person” = clear case of harassment!!![…]

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Paintbox Jury (scroll down) – readers of ILM may raise an eyebrow at this.
Good Songs From Useless Albums – good column idea from Matos.
Peter Blake designs Brian Wilson album cover – massive missed opportunity here, surely[…]

Twilight Of The MP3Blog?: Yousendit, the file transfer service which became the hapless vehicle for many of the new blogs, is no longer offering unlimited transfer of under-10MB files.[…]