
"It is as though London stretched unbroken from St Albans to Southend in a tangle of ten-lane four-deck super parkways, hamburger stands, banks, topless drug-stores, hippie hide-outs, Hiltons, drive-in mortuaries, temples of obscure and extraordinary religions, sinless joy and joyless sin, restaurants built to resemble bowler hats, insurance offices built to resemble Babylon, all shrouded below the famous blanket of acrid and corroding smog." Ah, Los Angeles: huge both in population and square footage, unseasonably warm even in January, and home to an awe-inspiring amount of taco trucks (pictured). I don't know about [...]

Note to Hillary: if you want to be featured on SoundRoots, get some new musical advisers. You know that SoundRoots is not longwinded on things political. But it has not escaped our notice that Obama has the lead not only in delegates, but also in music. Hillary did make a weak appeal to Spanish-speaking voters with this accordion-driven song: [mp3] unknown artist: Hillary, Hillary Clinton Obama -- or his musical supporters -- are clearly going for a [...]