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Restlesslist , an instrumental Brighton trio who've been round that ever incestuous scene (and a big hand for Tom White!), have the world of influence as their oyster, their Myspace list ranging from the big obvious names (Gorillaz, Joe Meek) to the crate digging (cLOUDDEAD, The Books) to the dubious (Babyshambles, Frank Sidebottom) to the schematic (horror movie soundtracks, calypso). What welding...
As the year grinds to a close and the music industry continues to collapse, it seems like a good idea to give some credit to a major label who actually went out and released a few interesting records in 2008. Someone in the A&R department at Island UK deserves something extra in their Christmas stocking [...]
If you read the indepth biographies of Winston Churchill, you will discover that the man suffered from a mental illness called Bipolar Disorder. Yet he was able to lead Britain in its time of greatest need against the Nazi war machine. What is Bipolar Disorder? Bipolar Disorder is understood to be a chemical imbalance in the brain. [...]
Christina Aguilera - Keeps Gettin’ Better: A Decade of Hits Available only at Target, Christina Aguilera’s first compilation Keeps Gettin’ Better: A Decade of Hits offers a convincing argument that Xtina was the best pop artist the turn-of-the-millennium teen-pop generated. Her squeaky clean early hits like “Genie in a Bottle” and “What a Girl Wants” hold [...]
Film Reviews: The energy, craziness and often downright shabbiness of London's early '60s, pre-Beatles pop biz are vividly brought to life in "Telstar: The Joe Meek Story."
Emotions were running high on the X Factor this weekend and the result has caused controversy among fans of the show, with critics slamming the judges for keeping in widower Daniel Evans on the sympathy vote.
Film News: Pic is directing debut of Nick Moran -- Fortissimo Films has picked up international sales rights to British thesp Nick Moran's helming debut "Telstar."
A certain sphere of music criticism enjoys celebrating the underdog, those that sold nothing in their day but went on to be surface influential to those who conquered the world. It's not the same for producers, for whom the most progressively minded producers (not as in those who produce themselves, let's make clear) are still seeing themselves as bringing their ideas to the pop sphere, so whether...
One night in 1995, as Nick Moran and his fellow “underemployed” actor James Hicks staggered drunkenly into a taxi on Holloway Road in North London, they noticed a blue plaque outside an old shop that read: “Joe Meek lived, worked and died here.”
