
Most Pitchfork fans have a sort of love-hate relationship with the organization. People resent the across the board filtering of all music, and resent it even more when they find out about most of their favorite music from them. Everyone wants to find the good stuff on their own so they can claim it as such. Then theres the jargon filled and totally pretentious writing style. Its the whole "who do they think they are acting like they know everything?" Well the thing is, its one of the best services I've ever used in my [...]
Back from the Royal Welsh Show with a couple of tunes that soundtracked my drive to and from mid Wales. How was the show? Massive, 200,000 people over four days, although I only had lunch breaks to explore. " The Welsh Sheeptacular " a presentation of 20 breeds of sheep was surprisingly engaging - proof perhaps that you can take the boy out of Cumbria but you cant take Cumbria out of the boy. Another highlight was the very happy and exceedingly posh woman careering around the show ground with her horse and trap. If she ever had [...]

Why are the things you want always in the last place you think of looking? About three years ago I saw a programme on Channel 4 about Outsider Music and was introduced to a man named Bingo Gazingo . Since then, I've been trying to track down something, anything by the great man. Cue three years of hunting with not even a sniff of success. Sure, I found a few articles about him dotted about the interweb but not one sniff of audio. That is, until Friday when, while stumbling around the wondrous portal of [...]