my lovely sukrat makes available the results of the legendary 1977 collision between old-skool jazz stylist M4RY LOU WILLI4MS and new-thing titan C3CIL TAYLOR
the result in question = called FANDANGLE (more…)[…]

“Turn It Up” by Paris Hilton is a song I’ve been playing a lot this last week or so. It’s on the stereo now, actually. It has Paris telling us to turn the music – or the party, or the intensity, or something – up, […]

I think this song, by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, might be the best song ever written. It’s a beautiful melody, given superb life by producer Luther Dixon’s luscious string arrangement (over a cod-Latin beat which I like less, but Leibe[…]

Good ole whassisname. Libyan President. It changes a bit. Well here is how much it changes, from The Straight Dope. Why did I need to know? I guess because of the Opera which Asian Dub Foundation and the ENO have been kicking around like a football […]

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH BOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!
As soon as Flav appears after 6 seconds of, even for Anthrax, ridiculously fast heavy drumming, you knew something was up. This track takes the idea that Aerosmith and Run DMC (quite literally, in t[…]

OK, I was genuinely surprised by the existence of this![…]

I went to see THE ROLLING STONES at Twickenham Rugby Stadium on Tuesday night. We were as far away from the stage as it was possible, really actual row ZZZZ. However due to the three storey high diamond vision screen it was still possible to make ou[…]

Link from KT on the Emo thread (oh, the Emo thread…….). Perhaps this will help us understand what Emo actually is. (more…)[…]

Visionary ranting from one-time FT contributor Robin Carmody on Pulp and “Common People” and pop before and after the Britpop boom. Stirring, on-form stuff. Probably because he doesn’t hoist his banner (ironically or otherwise) for[…]

years ago brian eno gave a lecture in which he argued that the space occupied by PERFUME is multidimensional in a way that cannot be easily mapped — but this post is about how deodorant companies attempt to do just this, not geometrically it&#8[…]