Month: February 2013
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Electro Swing Aint Just Doop to Me
Just to prove those remixing vintage and old jazz tracks goes far beyond Doop or Americano is this new compilation Buonasera Signorina…Electro-swing isn’t dead, it just crackles that way 😉 Heard about this from an email from them*, but after only two tracks and even a thumbs up via Facebook from Pom Deter – I…
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RC 234: The Queer History of Pop Part 1 (1960s-1980s)
I’ve been listening to the Story of Pop which again has been repeated on 6Music, but this time also reading the excellent Simon Napier-Bell’s Black Vinyl White Powder and the contrast has been striking – not so much the drug usage which has been there in the BBC series, but the queer element has been…
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Down at Maggie’s Content Farm: How greed is killing music journalism
I’m sure someone will point out the exceptions, but this article about how the background strings of corporate music blogging (how my fingers even hate to write that term, but sadly has existed for years) is killing music journalism. Yes a sensationalist title, but I’ve noticed the constant drip of ‘Top Ten Singles By Some…
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The Future of Rock and Roll
They’re called Winny Puhh (great name) they’re Estonian and come over like a male Pussy Riot on speed. Here they are auditioning for the European Song Contest. I hope they get selected…Remember Lordi? Or Diva International? – everyone associates the ESC with cheesy ballads but something different could actually win it. They’ve got the image…
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RIP Kevin Ayers
Just heard the sad news about the death Kevin Ayers, formerly of Soft Machine and many genius solo albums…(17 in fact – only listened to a few of them!). Here he is in 1972 performing one of my favourite tracks of his, May I? with The Whole Band on the Old Grey Whistle Test.