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…be they records, gigs, books, movies, videos, widgets or websites. We hope you’ll take some time to browse, and hopefully you’ll discover something new. And we are always keen to get recommendations in return, so feel free to tell us what’s rockin’ your boat. If like us you still have a healthy appetite for discovering...
Music Recommendation: Fanfarlo – Reservoir
David Bowie is their number 1 celebrity fan, the ever on the ball Rough Trade Shop reckon they are the best British band they’ve heard in years, and everyone from the Drowned In Sound and the NME to Mojo and the Sunday Times are raving about the band and their debut album. Yet they remain...
Music Recommendations – Spring has sprung
So much good music, so little time. Here’s the pick of the best new music from the first three months of this year… ALBUMS OF THE MONTH: AtomTM – Liedgut Uwe Schmidt otherwise known as Atom Heart, Señor Coconut, and some sixty other pseudonyms, has gone and made some of the most interesting electronica that...
Music Recommendations – Best of 2008
It’s oft been said that when the economy goes down the toilet the music gets better, which probably explains how I managed to listen to so much fantastic music this year. On my reckoning I listened to almost 120 albums of new music this year making it really hard picking my top albums! Album of...
Music Recommendations – 33 from Autumn ’08
This 33 doesn’t relate the revolutions per minute of a vinyl album, but the number of great records I’ve listened to over the last couple of months. With so much music to get through I’ve had to cut the reviews down a bit this month, but I’ve added links to myspace or last.fm pages, and...
I love Buraka Som Sistema…
Yes I do – and I guess it is a shared feeling within the citizens – so that is why I am posting a video of their live show last night at Cargo. After a tour of the US where they were highly acclaimed with articles in the New York and LA Times, the super...
Cyndi Loopy
Or Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper or Cyndi Lauper is back and I am still a big fan. Lets just do a little update on her age, sorry Cyndi, but we know you were born on June 22, 1953, so you can´t be 48 as you suggested on a recent TV show.. Anyways, Cyndi is for...
Music Recommendations – How much good music can you take?
The summer months are usually a quiet time for new releases. Except nobody seemed to have told this lot, so here’s a few of my favourites… ALBUMS OF THE MONTH: The Week That Was – The Week That Was Jonquil – Lions/Whistle Low EP It’s not often that I get to rave about a band...
Music Recommendations – Here comes the summer!
ALBUMS OF THE MONTH: Shearwater – Rook Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes Rook is amazingly the fifth album by Jonathan Meiburg’s solo project Shearwater, a band so under the radar they had pretty much gone unnoticed here in the UK, apart from a small feature in the much missed independent music magazine, Comes With A...
The Friday Selection
Here are three for you all as the week-end approaches, so get ready to jump up and down and shout for joy or kick back and enjoy these ones. First up is Dead Pop Stars, by Altered Images, by far my favourite track by them. Never troubled the charts but is a brilliant track. Next...
Last.fm+Youtube = the coolest music channel in the world
I love mashups when they do something really simple and really smart. Tim Bowman’s clear little mashup takes the technology behind Last.fm to recommend a whole load of videos for you to watch from You Tube. You simply type in an artist or a last.fm username and you get an instant video channel, rather than...
Music Recommendation – Plip, plip, plop little April showers…
The weather’s been foul, the music’s been great. So dive on in! ALBUMS OF THE MONTH: Portishead – Third White Williams – Smoke Where do you go next when you seemingly can’t escape front the fact you’re your début album produced one of defining moment of a genre of music you hate – Trip Hop....