New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Magazine, the Manchester post-punk legends, are set to release a Peel Sessions album in the US for the first time.
The Driftwood Singers Present (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
I don’t wanna know ‘bout wrong or right I don’t want to know - I’m anywhere tonight -- Captain Beefheart It was only a matter of time until TDSP dragged its sorry ass into the future. Truth is, it's a miracle we're even on the Internet. But now we've gone and done it: created a podcast. Actually, I did this alone without Mr. Poncho's knowledge or seal of approval, so it's a bit of a half-breed, an...
music like dirt (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Ryan (StopMe): I’ve spent a pleasant week reading a stack of new books I’ve just bought like Marjane Satrapi’s engrossing and witty ‘Chicken With Plums‘ and Alan Moore’s unsettling ‘From Hell‘ ( A journey into ...
motel de moka (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
The Undertones - Teenage kicks The Undertones (1978) A charmful ode to young lust and according to John Peel, the most perfect three minutes of music ever pressed into vinyl. While I beg to differ with him, truth is the man was right, nothing can be subtracted from this to make it any less perfect. Nancy Sinatra & [...]
Movie-Moron (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
And so we come to Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist soundtrack. Forgive me if my staple cynicism seems to have abandoned me, but I love the concept for this film. A young guy and young girl walk around the East Village over one night, see bands, talk about bands, and kind of fall in love. Like Before Sunrise for young people who live vicariously through their music. Sounds custom made for a 16 year-old...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Years ago, me and some mates were talking about 'the most psychedelic LPs ever made'. We soon dispatched Captain Beefheart, Zappa, The Beatles... all the obvious ones... only to move on to those weird anomalies that sit in famous singer's...
Backstage Pass (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Don Cavalli Cryland Release date: 20th October 2008 Review by Beca Laliberte Music critics around the world have already pigeonholed Don Cavalli as mimicky' and unimaginative' and complain that stylistically, Cryland is a blatant imitation of all the rock and...
Nag on the Lake (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
John, this one's for you. Via
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
My Old Kentucky Blog fave Grampall Jookabox reminds me of Captain Beefheart. Grampall Jookabox is the name of Indianapolis native David "Moose" Adamson's musical project and he's got a new record coming on Joyful Noise / Asthmatic Kitty called Ropechain that's all electric and bluesy and distorted americana with some interesting vocals and melodies; this ain't lo-fi it's new-fi. GP is currently on...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
In a perverse way, the secret police in formerly communist Czechoslovakia are largely responsible for the lasting iconic stature enjoyed by the Plastic People of the Universe.
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Don Van Vliet or Captain Beefheart has always been a bit of an eccentric, kind of like how Donald Trump is a little arrogant. It seems that Don grew up with his parents thinking he was a child prodigy as an artist and sculptor. Apparently they thought very highly of his talents and didn’t require [...]
E-consultancy - Internet Marketing News and Blogs (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
The latest update of iTunes (version 8) contains a new feature called Genius, which creates playlists from your library of music, as well as recommending songs for you to download. With the popularity of music recommendations provided by sites like Last.fm, Pandora and the recently launched Filter , this seems like a smart move by Apple, so how does it perform?
Harmony's Weblog (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
Trombonist Roswell Rudd stood out with Carla Bley’s band on cuts like “Hallelujah, the Lord is Talkin’ to Ya.” So when I recently ran across a 2002 CD called Malicool, which teamed Rudd with several Mali musicians, I snagged it. I ordinarily don’t pay much attention to the trombone in jazz recordings. Duke Ellington’s trombonists added [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Hector Zazou was an adventurous, eclectic and prolific musician who pioneered the concept of the artist-as-producer and made an international name for himself with his sensitive and accessible world music fusions.
Matt Geary's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
The Drip-Dry Man. The Drip-Dry Man sounds more like he is from the swamplands of the American Deep South rather than Aberystwyth. Along with his nuclear fallout compadres, the Glitter-Dome band, most notably a gas-masked bass player and pot-banging percussionist, I gathered I would be witness to something slightly different when I walked in on [...]
