Blue Lines Revisited

Hail Hail Rock N Roll

Oct 1st

maura: two minutes of giggling. Won’t somebody think...

Oct 1st

Pitchfork More Stuff

Oct 1st

Pitchfork Stuff

Sep 30th

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Ludacris - “Saturday (Oooh Oooh)”: Reminds me of living in Oval, Summer 2002, and...

Sep 29th

Honestly, does nobody check these...

Another classic episode of When Politicians Tangle With Pop Songs (via @will_ran on Twitter). These...

Sep 29th

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screwrocknroll: Says kingdrake1: Azari & III - Reckless with your Love “Reckless with your...

Sep 29th

Double pack with a photograph, extra...

I see the argument made sometimes that musicians now should assume that music is free and that their...

Sep 29th

Tiki Subculture and Tikitech

Sep 29th

Bowiesongs on The Laughing Gnome

Sep 29th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27)

Sep 29th

Sharing Music (Slight Return)

yvynyl: tomewing: Just to clarify, I’m not saying that the social behaviour I talked about has...

Sep 28th

Sharing Music (Slight Return)

Just to clarify, I’m not saying that the social behaviour I talked about has vanished, just...

Sep 28th

Sharing Music

I did a lot of sharing music back in the 80s and 90s. I lent people records, I borrowed records, I...

Sep 28th

I really love when people decry "straw men"...

Sep 28th

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Killer Mike ft Big Boi - “A.D.I.D.A.S.”: There was at least one other song called this I...

Sep 28th

GRAPES

Green or red?

Sep 28th

2001: A Taste Odyssey

Sep 28th

Has Tumblr got rid of its “wall of posts” search results page? Sadface. Even though it...

Sep 27th

douglaswolk: “It was a terrible, indescribable thing… a...

Sep 26th

Music Taste Game Theory

People make statements all the time about which music they like and why they like it. Some of these...

Sep 25th

The Thunderer

Sep 25th

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Shakedown - “At Night”: A song that proves its own hypothesis. Seems I can’t...

Sep 25th

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Taylor Swift - “You Belong With Me”: Erm, OK, honestly nothing new to say about this one...

Sep 23rd

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Tatu - “Ne Ver Ne Bojsia”: Their Eurovision entry. They came second or third: the live...

Sep 22nd

Cows in a pond, from our weekend walk.

Sep 22nd

Surf Solar

Sep 22nd

Facebook Groups

jonathan-deamer: nostrich: 1,000,000 United Against the BNP: 643,594 members I will name my Son...

Sep 22nd

megpickard: gmclean: It’s Nice That :...

Sep 21st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20)

Sep 21st

Continuity Sugababes!

I knew Heidi was the real manipulator here. PURE EVIL.

Sep 21st

Distributed Reporting

Sep 21st

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My Chemical Romance - “Teenagers”: I am not sure I can do better for a write up of this...

Sep 21st

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Red Hot Entertainment - “Junior Spesh”: Starry said much of what needs to be said about...

Sep 20th

Silence Is Subjective

Sep 20th

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Nearness: And the RFID demonstration from BERG that started this train of thought, itself a small...

Sep 20th

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Mouse Trap: This, on the other hand, is all too familiar.

Sep 20th

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Der Lauf Der Dinge (1987): I’d never seen this before.

Sep 20th

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Electrik Red - “Drink In My Cup”: When I got hold of the Electrik Red album I...

Sep 19th

Music And Theory

Sep 19th

hndrk: In the 1980s video cassette technology made it...

Sep 19th

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The Clientele - “Rain”: I wrote a piece about The Clientele’s still-excellent...

Sep 18th

In Defense Of Cliff Richard

Sep 17th

The Decade In Indie

Sep 17th

The Decade In Indie

Sep 17th

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Wir Sind Helden - “Guten Tag”: Goofy Neue Deutsche Welle revival track which became a...

Sep 17th

heyitsnoah: holycrapfacts: “Chance a U.S. household that owns a Prius also owns an SUV: 1 in 3.”...

Sep 17th

(solipsistic pop) via @MattBadham on Twitter.

Sep 17th

SNAKE WITH A FOOT! (full story) I kind of feel for the...

Sep 17th

There Is A Happy Land

Sep 16th

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via @alexostroff and @lexpretend on Twitter - The Bangz vs Pink Dollaz, “Get It Girl”,...

Sep 16th

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Slimm Calhoun - “It’s OK”: Here’s what I said about this one on Freaky...

Sep 16th

hndrk: Vampire Weekend have just announced their 2nd album...

Sep 15th

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Breeze - “What Di Hell”: What I said about this track back in 2002 - “Hard Drive...

Sep 15th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-13)

Sep 14th

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Melody Club - “Killing A Boy”: Swedish bands seem to have an unrivalled capacity for...

Sep 14th

The 00s (my list)

Sep 14th

Thinking about lists

Realisation: I enjoyed music a lot more in the 00s than in the 90s, but fewer individual records...

Sep 13th

Gambler

iconography: Album: Vision Quest (1984) Songwriter: Madonna Producer: John “Jellybean” Benitez ...

Sep 13th

This bothered me for some reason

cureforbedbugs: “Identity: how youth culture, Afromodernism, and transgender/transsexual personas,...

Sep 11th

De Burgh Brings The Pain

Sep 11th

Rock Criticism Arranged As A Football...

In my very limited free time since my 2nd kid was born I have been writing about music, and while...

Sep 10th

The Pop World Cup 2010

Sep 10th

Question 2.0

If your Twitter bio says “social chameleon” i. what do you think it means? ii. what...

Sep 10th

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This isn’t a video post, just an audio one, anyway it’s Bruce Springsteen’s...

Sep 10th

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Another early Number One hit in the UK - John Leyton’s “Johnny Remember Me”. I...

Sep 9th

My last Beatles post possibly maybe IDK

I have totally worked out why I am going so doolally over Beatles posts on this thing, and...

Sep 9th

“They [financial crises] are all different, but they have one...”
— Alan Greenspan (via...

Sep 9th

Scott Plagenhoef on Sgt Peppers'

Sep 9th

From The Invisibles #1, 1994. The body language of...

Sep 9th

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It seems like ages since I’ve posted a track on this tumblr. More regular posting of them...

Sep 8th

On Marks Out Of 10

Sep 8th

treblekicker: From a gallery of ‘exciting events in Bern’...

Sep 8th

Pudding Renamed Spotted Richard

Sep 8th

Drew Daniel on people who died

Sep 8th

Where are Beatles Band?

I had fun reviewing the first five Beatles albums for Pitchfork. (I’m only doing the first...

Sep 8th

Modern Manners

You’ve called yourself FredDurstsKnob, yr last.fm invite does not tempt.

Sep 7th

(flowingdata) I want one just as pretty for The Warlock Of...

Sep 7th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-6)

Sep 7th

Cricket And Transmedia Storytelling

Sep 7th

Dylan Christmas Album Tracklist

Sep 7th

And it was still hot

The trailers of Where The Wild Things Are give me really mixed feelings. On the one hand...

Sep 7th

megpickard: via strangemaps.files.wordpress.com This is...

Sep 7th

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One for Dave’s novelty vault.

Sep 6th

Fifth Business

Sep 4th

(Made by Al to accompany today’s Popular entry)

Sep 4th

existentializzy: [snip, but go read] Any Whovians out...

Sep 4th

Research Trainwreck!

Sep 4th

British Library To Put Its Sound Archive On...

Sep 3rd

“Jay-Z has ended up in the World’s End and he’s having to...”
— FreakyTrigger (via walkist)...

Sep 3rd

The comments are good too - what if the Beatles had played video games? WHAT THEN EH? Yes just...

Sep 2nd

Beatles Praisewatch!

Sep 2nd

Ample Charms

Sep 2nd

aceterrier: I recently acquired the most recent Britney...

Sep 2nd

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joecoscarelli: tomewing: aceterrier: Shakira, “She Wolf” I posted what I thought was this...

Sep 1st

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maura: So, after two false starts, I finally found a cafe with Wi-Fi where I can work for the next...

Sep 1st

I’m responding very well to cheap laughs today. The...

Sep 1st

"Ted Nugent (loincloth)"

Sep 1st

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aceterrier: Shakira, “She Wolf” I posted what I thought was this earlier, but it was a lo-fi...

Sep 1st

Welsh Eggs

Sep 1st

Food Science Day 2009

Sep 1st