In some of my spare time I am a bit of a noisemonger. I know I’m getting old but rattling the hell out of a guitar induces a state of zen like calm in me.
I’ve always had a strange love of anything a little bit strange sounding - hence my love of flying saucer attack [...]
For a long time I resisted the urge to buy Arab Strap records. Maybe its because they come from Falkirk, maybe its because they were always at the same clubs as me, maybe its because Aidan used to give me grief about the bands I liked as a kid. Anyway for whatever reason I may [...]
For a while I’ve been listening to the podcasts over at Not Quite Rocket Science - what a fantastic name for a blog.
Today I went over and needed some music to help get to the end of the day - and their tracklistings are pretty fab. I’m proud to say that Podcast 14 keeps up [...]
I’ve spent the last couple of days trying to find some decent new music that doesn’t suck. And worryingly I found some but it wasn’t what I thought I would be liking.
The latest offering from Britney Spears rocks. Its fantastic! OK she may be banged up in a mental hospital but all the great artists [...]
As I sit here typing away attempting to escape the real world I discover a gem on an indie music blog. Its the Ukulele orchestra of Great Briatin (no I didnt know we had one of these either) covering Miss Dy-na-mi-tee and it rocks.
Not Convinced? Have a listen here
I was going to rant about the death of ‘indie’ music but that wasn’t happy so today I thought I’d go on about how ‘indie’ music is still good.
In yesterday Metro, or maybe the day before, there was an interview with Underworld (’Lager, lager, lager’ - and all that). Which praised the Internet for having [...]
When I was a kid - dim and distant past I know - but compilation tapes were all the rage. Easy way to see if you were going to get on well with someone was to get them to make you a ‘tape’, or vice versa.
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