
So last week, I started you all off with a few old school Armand Van Helden tracks and remixes . It got a pretty good response, actually. Well, except from the Strictly Rhythm folks , and we can understand why, so we took down the mp3 of "Break Night". Hopefully if you guys trust my opinion, you'll buy the track, anyhow! So this week, we're bouncing ahead a little further. After his seminal album 2 Future 4 U , he has just sort of gone downhill, unfortunately. The edge isn't there, any more. That's a [...]

First up Busted, sorry I mean Fightstar. Actually anyone who has seen or heard Fightstar will know that there's is no similarity, whatsoever. In fact, Charlie Simpson seems to want to forget that Busted ever happened at all. Although, apparently some people do still have Busted on their iPod's. A going concern now since 2003 and now working on their third album, Fightstar are loud and powerful, although not really my cup of tea. They start out their set sounding like the Foo Fighters or Nirvana but end up trying to be Metallica. [...]

I'd like to see this woman become a huge fucking star. Interesting scheduling conflict that Saturday in July. Over at The Yard (which on nice days, and for some things, can be the best venue in this town) Todd P was hosting his all-day Mid Summer Outdoor Party . TP4KTB has made a shift over the past year towards the types of acts Todd books/nurtures; at least four bands on the bill had recently been slapped with a BNM (High Places, Titus Andronicus, Crystal Antlers, Ponytail) and another [...]
Si sono sciolti nel 2001, per dedicarsi a progetti individuali con cui ritrovare stimoli e motivazioni persi in gruppo; ora a distanza di sette anni pare che torneranno assieme per un tour ed un album di inediti. Stiamo parlando degli Skunk Anansie , formazione britannica -da molti compianta- guidata dall'enigmatica front-woman Skin . Un quotidiano inglese ha raccolto la dichiarazione del bassista Cass (al secolo Richard Keith Lewis), che ha annunciato una serie di esibizioni live entro la fine dell'anno e più avanti l'entrata in studio per lavorare a materiale inedito. La notizia [...]

Yeah, it's true. I'm a fan of the Icelandic pixie known as Bjork . I've been a fan ever since I saw the video for "Birthday" back in the late eighties. Of course back then she was the lead singer of The Sugarcubes . One of two singers, actually. The other one was a guy. I met him once. He was kind of an ass. Maybe he'd had a bad day or something. If you only know [...]

Con un messaggio apparso sul sito ufficiale dei Subsonica il tastierista del gruppo Boosta ha annunciato che sul suo canale Myspace personale è ascoltabile in streaming una traccia scritta e realizzata assieme alla cantante inglese Skin , l'ex front-woman degli Skunk Anansie. Il pezzo si intitola "Last1con " ed è (almeno per il momento) inedita, non pubblicata; mi è piaciuto subito il suo ritmo, quell'atmosfera electro funk che la rende al tempo stesso raffinata e accessibile alle folle dei dj-set. Ascoltatela cliccando qui e diteci cosa ve [...]

Strange Days - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Strange Days came out in October of 1995, made about five bucks and then vanished forever. It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, ( Near Dark, Point Break ) and written by her ex-husband James Cameron (yea, that James Cameron - she's wife number three of five ). As much as I love Near Dark and Point Break I'd have to say that Strange Days is Bigelow's best film to date. I also think that it's the best thing Cameron's ever written as well, it's [...]