Month: February 2012

  • Davy Jones of the Monkees RIP

    Davy Jones of the Monkees RIP

    Apparently dead at 66 from a heart attack – hoping it was one of those twitter/internet hoaxes but no, BBC and Rolling Stone have it up so it’s unlikely. 🙁 Seems appropriate to post Porpoise Song as he shares lead vocals on this pioneering track (and amazingly underrated film ‘Head’). Here’s a more traditional lead…

  • Nice guys aren’t losers!

    Nice guys aren’t losers!

    Well if you’re Eddy Temple-Morris you are since his band is called the Losers 😉 His article about the nice guy in the music industry is very revealing. In an industry where bad boy types and beefs create good copy (always thought the love for Oasis after the first LP wasn’t the music but the…

  • Niallist – AKA free album – Hell Yeah!

    Niallist – AKA free album – Hell Yeah!

    How did I miss this when it was released a year ago? Good news for the latecomers though is Niallist has just released his AKA album for free on Soundcloud, and there’s some really choice tracks. Love his Work It update with Julius Seizure ‘Jack Black poster!’, the Like ‘Em Fat which is in a…

  • In her eyes, in her eyes

    In her eyes, in her eyes

    Really being drawn to a lot of 60’s Nuggets and Psychedelic rock recently (as well as proto-punk) – was checking out the 100 Records That Set Fire To The World (Not – as the The Wire article pointed out – these are their ‘great lost classics’) after frenchbloke linked to a follow-up on Twitter. Working…

  • Home Is Where The Hatred Is

    Home Is Where The Hatred Is

    ‘Little’ Esther Phillips had been the same place Gil had battling addiction, which is why her searing cover of ‘Home Is Where The Hatred’ is stands up to the original. Apparently she was up for a Grammy that year, Aretha Franklin won it, then gave it to Esther saying she was the best vocalist that…

  • Madeon – Icarus

    Madeon – Icarus

    There are a few certain things in this world, the sky is blue, the sun is hotter the closer you get to it, and Madeon’s Icarus is going to be MASSIVE. I mean, 45,000 listens and thousands of likes in 22 hours massive. Not sure if it’s Number 1 massive yet without a recogniseable vocal/name…

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