Perhaps it's timely, while much of the 'civilised' West hops up & down at the beastliness of several Muslim countries - to note that the Scottish courts have yet again jailed the same man for the obviously dreadful crime of appearing naked in a public place... even when no-one has complained & no 'peace' has been breached. Clearly, the oppressive regime there must be crushed by any means necessary. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-s cotland-tayside-central-146493 94 ♫ Funkadelic - Super Stupid [...]
"That ain't the way to have fun " A piss-poor joke, I'll grant you - but sometimes that, & some renewed media coverage of the " Brotherly Leader and Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya " is all it takes to get me off the pile of gold & posting some music again... [...]
I've been attempting to come up with a song - or two or three - to illustrate the notion of there being plenty of songs on UK radio about America, and (relatively) few concerning England. As ever, push comes to shove & memory fails - but my upstairs jukebox did belt out something suitable - which proves that the Dutch were well versed on, (or at least benefited from), England's fascination with the USA. Call it cheesy, call it bubblegum… you may say they were no better than Baccara, or even the Brotherhood of Man (nothing [...]
Now this is more the kind of thing - it's about experiences in a city, how it feels to be there. Still not quite the feel of too many to count American city songs, it's true - and perhaps I should find an English artist. Good enough though, Alexander - especially on a grey & rainy summer day in Portsmouth. ♫ Frida Hyvönen - London! Silence Is Wild (2008 - Licking Fingers) buy | myspace --- [...]
Oh goodness ! - a new post here? - surely not, Ha I've been driving back n forth to my Dad's a bit lately, and after growing tired of most of an Eminem cd, (and too lazy to stop & replace it) - the radio's been on… Coast since you ask. Two things strike me about the station 1: In between songs, they play a spoken message, boasting about how they don't interrupt the songs by talking. 2: They float on a whole raft of [...]
If you've kept an occasional eye on Google's difficulties with the Chinese government - you'll know that the mandarins (ha!) in Beijing have been increasingly unhappy with Google's supposedly brave stance against censorship, which lately has involved nothing less blatant than an automatic redirect to their Hong Kong site ... which provides results unfettered by China's requirements, which are then filtered by Chinese firewalls anyway, before the average user there gets a chance to see them. A couple of days ago, Google announced a 'new approach' "instead of automatically redirecting all our [...]
Back in England - Portsmouth, to be reasonably specific - a car that wouldn't start due to a flat battery and some bugger next door who dug new foundations smack next to/under mine, with the consequential front door that sticks in the frame, & broken glass panel above it, as well as various cracks in walls & ceilings. Big deal, - and so it is - for one thing that stood out, a reminder that really rankled, was the local 7-11 type store having cheese & bacon tucked safely away, well behind the counter, to prevent their [...]
Back in England - Portsmouth, to be reasonably specific - a car that wouldn't start due to a flat battery and some bugger next door who dug new foundations smack next to/under mine, with the consequential front door that sticks in the frame, & broken glass panel above it, as well as various cracks in walls & ceilings. Big deal, - and so it is - for one thing that stood out, a reminder that really rankled, was the local 7-11 type store having cheese & bacon tucked safely away, well behind the counter, to prevent their [...]
I went out for lunch with my old Dad yesterday - I can call him that, at eighty five, I think. He chose the venue ( and paid, for that matter - thanks Dad! ) - a once bustley lunchtime pub right on the old main road, or it was before they built a bypass... not that the road's exactly quiet, even so. A somewhat odd place, over all the near thirty years I've known it - seemingly obsessed for long after the possibility faded away, with using signage to dissuade coaches (buses) full of potential drinkers [...]
I went out for lunch with my old Dad yesterday - I can call him that, at eighty five, I think. He chose the venue ( and paid, for that matter - thanks Dad! ) - a once bustley lunchtime pub right on the old main road, or it was before they built a bypass... not that the road's exactly quiet, even so. A somewhat odd place, over all the near thirty years I've known it - seemingly obsessed for long after the possibility faded away, with using signage to dissuade coaches (buses) full of potential drinkers [...]
Getting on for a year since I first heard New York duo The Ropes with this rather impressive EP title track... ♫ Be My Gun Be My Gun EP (2009) free download | buy the CD They've a fine & shiny new EP out now, which is similarly available completely free at their website ♫ I Miss You Being Gone I Miss You Being Gone EP (2010) free mp3 [...]
Getting on for a year since I first heard New York duo The Ropes with this rather impressive EP title track... ♫ Be My Gun Be My Gun EP (2009) free download | buy the CD They've a fine & shiny new EP out now, which is similarly available completely free at their website ♫ I Miss You Being Gone I Miss You Being Gone EP (2010) free mp3 [...]
I do like this - it's long and jazzy and wonderfully open, feels torch-songy, despite the subject; and proves that if you're good, you can write about most anything. I get My Funny Valentine and Cry Me a River going round my head, hearing this... ♫ Succulent Mayonnaise - Lachi myspace | buy | more free mp3s & yeah, it's not on the album, or any album, so far as I can tell... sue [...]
I do like this - it's long and jazzy and wonderfully open, feels torch-songy, despite the subject; and proves that if you're good, you can write about most anything. I get My Funny Valentine and Cry Me a River going round my head, hearing this... ♫ Succulent Mayonnaise - Lachi myspace | buy | more free mp3s & yeah, it's not on the album, or any album, so far as I can tell... sue [...]
Back last April, I was really very enthused about Rosie & Me, particularly the delightful 'Come Back', which as others have pointed out, seems to be ripe for a high-profile TV ad' - not to cheapen the music, heavens no... but it's catchy & charming & innocent & sweet as can be. ♫ Bonfires - Rosie and Me ♫ Come Back - Rosie and Me Bird and Whale EP (2010) myspace | last.fm | [...]
Back last April, I was really very enthused about Rosie & Me, particularly the delightful 'Come Back', which as others have pointed out, seems to be ripe for a high-profile TV ad' - not to cheapen the music, heavens no... but it's catchy & charming & innocent & sweet as can be. ♫ Bonfires - Rosie and Me ♫ Come Back - Rosie and Me Bird and Whale EP (2010) myspace | last.fm | [...]
I'm soooo behind eh - not that it makes a lot of difference... Another more than pleasing performance from the latest Music Alliance Pact collection.The Wooden Constructions, on this track at least, bring a very angular, dancey, new-wavey Roxy Music to mind. Maybe one song at a time is enough though? - but this is well good, and no mistake. ♫ No No (Hip Hop) - The Wooden Constructions Dont ask me man, I dont know why EP (2009) myspace | free download
A re-up this, just a cut n paste about a shamefully near-ignored track that I posted last year, which happens to be next in in the unruly pile of seven inch singles awaiting their sad fate on ebay. Battered, tattered & torn - not to mention a bit crackly... (although even when new, this pressing was more than a little noisy). Getting old it is too, like me eh - a day, & technically, a year older since yesterday... -------------------------- [...]
Having moved house, and a lot of other things in the last year - I'm finally getting around to shifting some oldish 45 rpm singles, left over from a not-so feckless youth. For someone who likes music, I never bought very much of it... but perhaps I'm unwittingly making comparisons with a pal or two, who had serious vinyl habits. Whatever the case, I purchased relatively little in the way of records & tapes, save for a few hardly heady years post '79 or so; but I do have a pile of singles beside me, presumably chosen some time [...]
The Farewell Circuit are a four-piece band out of Minneapolis, Minnesota - they sent an email back in December, mentioning "somewhat silently" releasing Birdless Sky - their debut album. Describing themselves as similar to Death Cab, Sigur Ros, Radiohead etc, along with the unassuming manner in which the album's being pushed, you might not expect anything wonderful... so be pleasantly surprised then, becuase they're really rather good. I've been playing this one over & over - so it must be my favourite eh?. ♫ The Inexorable March of Time - The [...]
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Miike Snow – Paddling Out (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
Lana Del Rey covers Lovecat magazine!
