Noise Pollution (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Writers in music....
IGN (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Three is the magic number.
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
The latest issue of Shindig! (volume 2, issue 5) is now available, packed with the usual blend of reviews and features for the discerning music fan. Highlights this month include the first part of the West Coast Pop Art Experimental...
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 22/04/2008
For some reason the Arts Council, or at least its Take It Away musical learning initiative, is holding a Most Musical City in England poll. Each city has a celebrity sponsor - of course it does - and the winner gains a sense of meta-smugness, probably. So those ten nominees? Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield - all fair enough, if we're going down this...
the central shaft (Free subscription) | 26/03/2008
Here Come the Warm Jets is the first solo album by Brian Eno The album's musical styles range from aggressive garage rock ("Blank Frank") to serene Beach Boys-style reverie ("On Some Faraway Beach"). Eno enlisted a large number of guest musicians to play on the album, including three members of Roxy Music, guitarist Robert Fripp and bassist John Wetton of King Crimson and members of Hawkwind and the...
A Motörhead fan-blog (Free subscription) | 14/03/2008
Hei lukijat Suomesta - Hei minun blogini lukijoille, jotka asuvat Suomessa. Hyvää päivää! Ok my feeble attempts at setting down a friendly welcoming phrase in Finnish from a dictionary is never going to work, put simply and perhaps more safely in english it is an attempt at a big hello to all readers of this blog who are from Finland. Let me know if my welcome in Finnish makes any sense at all or is...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 28/02/2008
FORTY years on from Paris ’68, londonprintstudio is celebrating the changing art of utopian rebellion and activism in Agitpop 1968 – 2008 – until May 31, 2008. The exhibition features international and contemporary work alongside a unique display of posters from 60s to 80s Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove. The neighbourhood was then the centre of London's underground culture, and home to Pink Floyd,...
A Motörhead fan-blog (Free subscription) | 22/01/2008
According to a little article I found here at Style Weekly (their style not mine) those with fond memories of Stiff Records might be interested in this recent release; Various Artists, “The Big Stiff Box Set” (Salvo UK)This handsome, four-CD box set with the slightly pornographic name contains a mixed bag of nearly 100 singles from legendary pub-rock-turned-punk-rock UK label, Stiff Records. Known...
Lost-In-Tyme (Free subscription) | 08/10/2007
Talk today about Britain's psychedelic psyxties, and it's the light whimsy of Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, the gentle introspection of the village green Kinks, Sgt. Pepper, and "My White Bicycle" which hog the headlines. People have forgotten there was an underbelly as well, a seething mass of discontent and rancor which would eventually produce the likes of Hawkwind, the Pink Fairies, and the Edgar Broughton...
