According to Will Page of the MCRS-PRS, the music industry is more than making back the money it’s losing from recording on live performance. That wasn’t in the Digital Britain Report, now was it? We’re doing our best. Meanwhile, MailWatch makes me think there’s probably space for a blog devoted to reviewing films it’s not…
Read More I don’t give two fucks about your reviewI saw the Ettes play last night; the first band on my list based on SCIENCE! that I’ve actually seen. They absolutely nailed No Home and made Soizick dance. A lot. (RSW weren’t wrong, were they.) But before that, a story. Getting to the place, we found a closed speakeasy-like door and no sign of…
Read More thank you very much!Via Worldchanging, the machine that turns up the music, flashes lights, and eventually produces fog if you do enough freaky dancin’. Its specifications and much more stuff are here. Of course, it’s a fairly obvious feedback loop, with a side order of poking fun at superstar DJs here we go! But there’s something I like…
Read More loopSo people wanted to know what my rational method for assessing obscure bands turned up. Here goes with the tracklisting, and brief reflections on each. 2020Soundsystem – Shiver Remember Robert Miles, “Children”? Sure ya do. Similar mood, vaguely krautrock underpinnings. But slightly average. Are we sure about this project? Bloodgroup – Chuck Ah, this is…
Read More musicSo somebody reviewed 1,302 songs by the same number of bands, giving each one six words only. But how to centrifuge this toxic dump? Clearly there was no possibility of scraping the page and wget-ing the lot; Sturgeon’s Law (90% of everything is shit) applies to music as it does to few other things. I…
Read More in which we get down…to the unconscious!I’m increasingly annoyed by official-media consensus that young people will suffer more than anyone else from the recession. Not that I especially doubt this; I doubt the reasoning, which appears to be that they’ve all gone soft and they’re not like we were in my day. As a general principle, I believe this is usually…
Read More you can’t blame the youth of todayThe Daily Mash is still making more sense about the economic crisis than the entire global conservative movement. ECONOMISTS WARN OF BILLY BRAGG: Professor Bill McKay, of University College London, said: “The core economic purpose of any Labour government is to prevent Billy Bragg. “If, as it appears, we are returning to a cycle of…
Read More Meet our intellectual mastersFrom the always wonderful, Satin Pajama shortlisted, Where the money is…, the rock band who stage guerrilla gigs in banks. Bursting out of a white van, the men in balaclavas from the power trio Caracho (as in “Ni karasho!”, I presume) charge into the bank, assemble their specially hacked backline amps, and hit it. This…
Read More probably a robberyAckerman reckons we should be impressed that he suggested a Turkish-Kurdish rapprochement two years ago. The evidence for the rapprochement is pretty good – there are meetings going on between the KRG and the Turks, under the chairmanship of (Kurdish) Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, about issues connected with all the business Turkish companies are doing…
Read More People say to me just be yourself, it makes no sense to follow fashion. How could I be anybody else?Rita Mitsuko – Marcia bailaUploaded by emmaus This needs reviving, surely?
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