You all know popbitch already - the scurrilous and probably actionable weekly email dip into the amusing/embarrassing tittle-tattle the "slebs" don't want you to know about. i like popbitch as much as anyone, but sometimes whoever writes it gets ideas, frankly, above their station (usually when moving outside its specialist areas of Top 40 music and being a swearier 3am Girls - every so often they offer an opinion on art, or something that wouldn't fit neatly into Heat , for instance, and it's just embarrassing). Seeing as it's an email list, [...]
ahwhatthefuck... might as well post this since it's ready & i'm bored & in work... i remixed the Delusionists ' "Parallel Worldz" (featuring Invizible Frenz ) from the recent Certified Banger On the Radar Vol. 4 compilation for their remix contest . BEETS LAYING ABOUT Hopefully it is good enough for the first guy from Invizible Frenz not to "literally shit on" me. mp3 : Delusionists — " Parallel [...]
Definitely the best thing i've seen on the front of a women's magzine for a while. mp3 : 14 Year Old Girls —" Grand Theft Auto 3 " mp3 : Don Caballero — " Slice Where You Live Like Pi e "
Reading a BBC piece the other day about the legendary "miming vocalist" fallout surrounding Black Box 's 1989 hit "Ride on Time", i got to thinking that Milli Vanilli got a pretty raw deal out of their whole experience with same. The point's been made before that their biggest crime was essentially being twenty years ahead of their time (see this DKPresents piece for a concise and interesting precis). But was it? Or was it more serious for MV that they failed to pay lip service to pop culture's bizarre and uneven obsession [...]
Anyone else noticed: The Countdown theme is basically a better-played instrumental rip-off of "Psykick Dancehall" by The Fall ; mp3 : The Fall — " Psykick Dancehal l " Both of them are basically rip-offs of the first part of Gustav Holst 's "Jupiter: The Bringer of Jollity" (@ 01:51)? mp3 : Gustav Holst — " Jupiter: The Bringer of Jollit y " i feel [...]
If Can had left an open break in Jaki Liebezeit's drumming on "Halleluhwah", they'd have a break up there with "Synthetic Substitution" or "Impeach the President" on their hands. Discuss. mp3 : Can — " Halleluhwa h "
Let's hope your patients don't own computers.
Certified Banger writes : So, it's here - for all of you who were waiting! 'On The Radar Volume 4' is available for your downloading pleasure and with over a dozen exclusives, Volume 4 proves that the series is going from strength to strength. Volume 4 features 20 tracks of strictly British Hip Hop from rappers and producers from around the Kingdom. Certified Banger's now cemented reputation in the underground and online UK rap scene means that UK artists , who are not yet on the [...]
The new Desert Island Dicks album, released by Amoebic Industries (Unlimited) on 28 July 2009, is entitled The Shades of Jazz to Come , a dextrous play on the name of Ornette Coleman 's seminal free jazz masterpiece The Shape of Jazz to Come . The Coleman association is not merely a titular one; the album is also based sonically on The Shape of Jazz to Come . Six slices of the original Coleman album, [...]
And so the familiar landscape of the eighties continues to seep slowly, inexorably, away. (i know i should sort be obliged to feel a certain kinship for Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club , but Molly was like a perfect sonnet in female form in that film.) "RIP 80s dreams of friendship crossing social strata" — Pip RIP John Hughes. mp3 [...]
So the day we got back from Kendal , we also got an email from head-of-the-pack UK hip-hop blogger Certified Banger (" the top dog in this blogging phenomena... period! ", says Taskforce 's Farma G ), to tell us that 30KB are one of 21 artists featured on the forthcoming fourth instalment of his winning On the Radar compilation series. We're completely thrilled to feature on UK rap's premier contemporary showcase alongside people whose music we [...]
Got back yesterday from thee Kendal Calling festival which we played with our pals in Out From Animals (soon to be known as Scams ). We did two songs, "Skeletons" and a new 16 bars over their tune "Up All Night", which we wrote in about 15 minutes the day before. Here's a picture of me not quite being able to get back up on to the stage. credit: Christine Mayers [...]
The ever-missed John Peel used to theorise that any record with birdsong on it would probably be automatically good. (The title track of Bridget St. John 's Ask Me No Questions , which Peelie produced and released on his Dandelion label, even takes a break at the end for an interval of church bells and hand-picked birdsong clips from the BBC Archives). i sort of feel the same about records with the sound of barking dogs on. i will pretty much always listen to a track that features a dog [...]
Desert Island Dicks are an arcane international noise collective who have released numerable musical recordings of various styles. Little is known about their number or demographics, but acknowledged compositional influences include BBC Radio 4 ; hip-hop; strong coffee ; The Conet Project ; '60s jazz avant-garde: Coleman, Cherry, Taylor, Dolphy, Ra; John Zorn; The Evolution Control Committee; Zappa; The Fall; Metal Machine Music ; Cassetteboy; Futurism; Dada; Reich; Cage; Penderecki; The KLF; John Watermann; WFMU . [...]
Remember that bit in Milos Forman's Amadeus where the Emperor dismisses the burgeoning genius Mozart 's radical new composition with the words "... too many notes" (aka the best piece of music criticism of all time)? Well Led Bib 's Sensible Shoes has fucking thousands of notes, and they're all completely necessary. Sometimes there's so many notes that the London quintet have to play different ones on four instruments at the same time with the speed of a broken fairground waltzer, just to get through them all before the song ends. Truly, this [...]
The ever-brill truth-or-bullshit website Snopes reports on a forwarded email satire piece which "reports" that the US presidency is being outsourced to India. Apparently a lot of people are wondering if it's actually true. Snopes' estimable researcher Barbara Mikkelson writes: As we've noted on many occasions, really good satire hews a fine line between plausibility and absurdity, so it's not surprising we often receive "Is this true?" inquiries about satirical articles that circulate widely via e-mail the receipt of an out-of-context, news-like article with a premise that seems vaguely credible with a quick read-through [...]
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... so i made this one for him. * * * * * * * Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood (b. May 8 , 1942 , Arkansas City, Kansas ) is an American [...]
It's galling to me that serious people actually give enough of a shit about what slick Hollywood sleazoids like Ryan Reynolds think to commission Written Articles About Stuff from them, especially when it's ostensibly reputable blogs like Huffington Post doing the commissioning. Take this bleating piece , for instance, in which Ryan takes the moral high-ground re: the decadent wastefulness of competitive eating contests, mainly by invoking a variety of third-world children he has made up. "Young Mustafat, who maintains a strict diet of inner turmoil and bleached [...]
It occurs to me that i have never written a cake review before. Partly it's because the need for such a thing has never really occurred to me. Mostly though, i'd say, it's because i'm not much of a cake person. i find most cakes incredibly rich, even cheap supermarket ones, probably because that much sweetness in one entity just makes me to start to feel like a post-chocolate-chute Augustus Gloop after about two mouthfuls, but possibly because real cake never lived up to the reality of the ur- cake of cartoons, that perfect condensation of the essence of [...]
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