Tag: Kendrick Lamar
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RC 389: Ghosts
A ghostly ‘not halloween’ edition of Radio Clash, more Halloween-adjacent than the plastic chinese proxy-Xmas junkfest that Halloween has become. Ghosts of Xmas Capitalism… So we have songs about ghosts, existence, falling out of planes, dark paths, a trance cover of Wendy Carlos, a hard house cover of Somewhere Over The Radio, feminist queer punk,…
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RC 327: A Line In The Sand Part 2: Black Lives Matter
Anti-racism and Black Lives Matter is not just for a week or a month, it’s for a lifetime. The danger is that as this article points out, us white people have a history of dealing with racism and handwringing that actually doesn’t create action. Obfuscating it with their guilt and ‘need to listen/know more’ which…
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Artists shouldn’t love corporate copyright
Every once in a while I bump into ‘artists’ (and I use that term loosely, quite often they are corporate shills, indie chancers or pretty new to the industry) who defend copyright laws, extensions and corporates. Happened again recently…What I find strange is that the enforcers of copyright (corporates, labels, media companies) don’t actually love…
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Albums that people forgot yet hung around on my iPod
Strange how end of year lists seem to forget albums that were earlier in the year, for later. It’s as if people forgot they existed…I didn’t, partly because I tend to check out new stuff in a lump that’s not necessarily chronological, and also if I like something it tends to stick around. So here…
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Reformed Sugababes lay down in a Swimming Pool
Can’t believe I’m posting about a reformed girl band, but then again Sugababes were never your usual dizzy girl group fresh from stage school, working with the likes of Richard X, and I think did an amazing thing that only a few* have managed to keep their cred and be pop at the same time.…
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RC 232: Thirteen
2013 – not the Year of the Melting Rainbow NyanCat but lucky for some I hope – new year, new(ish) music. A rather dubby downtempo affair, includes a ska Doctor Who cover, a French President’s ex covering Bowie, a strangely good Neil Young cover, Cuban dubstep, some dubtrapstepmore, an orchestral song about Turing, a song…