(Nativesun Records) Or Soccer Moms Gone Wild. Had Alicia Bridges fronted Flock of Seagulls the excretions might have sounded like those of this quartet of...
(WTii Records) Although it isn't anomalous to catch strong whiffs of metal wafting out of today's kraut-techno, urbania was a resource woefully underemployed...
(COP International Records) A fair-to-middling techno sole-proprietorship, Chiasm spotlights Michigan's Emileigh Rohn, posed on her album cover as an...
(Nativesun Records) Or Soccer Moms Gone Wild. Had Alicia Bridges fronted Flock of Seagulls the excretions might have sounded like those of this quartet of...
(Wampus Records) Too-good-for-MTV dollop of Tom Petty cowpoke, Flaming Lips spunk and a Grateful Dead fetish for choo-choos ("Outbound Train" and "Clover," a...
(Candlelight Records) Propagandized as a more middle of the road type metal operation, Grimfist's sound would be identical to Metallica's "Ride the Lightning"...
(Candlelight Records) Thrill to the spectacle of Audrey Horne making a quick snack out of Disturbed and using emo as a toothpick. Tightly constructed, very...
(Ureneely Recordings) The next generation's Quentin Tarantino would cartwheel for joy at the thought of a band like this - crunchy, woozy, compressed beat-box...
(Compost Records) When French soundtrack go-to-guy Tree isn't pelting his espresso-beatnik jazz manga with static spitballs he can be found indulging in...
(COP International Records) A fair-to-middling techno sole-proprietorship, Chiasm spotlights Michigan's Emileigh Rohn, posed on her album cover as an...
(Abstract Sounds) Medium-speed sleaze-metal so full of its double-Y self it can't help but succeed. AWOL from his writing/cartooning/psychiatric-ward-squatting...
Robert McCrum of The Observer lists what the paper believes to be t he top 50 players in the (British) world of books. I read it absent-mindedly muttering...
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Peter Nicholson let me know about an excellent science and arts online magazine from Australia - 3 Quarks Daily. It's been endorsed by the likes of Steven...
Interesting AFP piece yesterday outlining UK publishers' concerns about both Amazon and Google encroaching on their traditional territory. The chief executive...
Suhayl Saadi: Psychoraag interview "...I see little point in attempting to mimic what's already been done very well by others. But I mean, I didn't write...
Spike contributor Ian Hocking has written a dangerously coherent think piece about Macmillan's New Writing publishing program over on his own blog. (He's just...
Too late in the night for me to check it out, but it looks like Alasdair Gray is a blogger now. (Found the link on his official site , so it's all legit.) --...
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Mar 30, 2006 10:38 pm
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Professor Lichtenberg is short, humpbacked, and losing his hair. He writes about mathematics, electricity, philosophy, but his dreams are more lascivious. He...
steve
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Apr 1, 2006 1:46 pm
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Did anyone else see Football Focus at lunchtime? I'm sure they used the wonderful new single by Scotland's finest Camera Obscura for their backing music. The...
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Apr 1, 2006 2:49 pm
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Hands up who cheered when Keith from Lytham lost £££ on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire just now? The question for £32,000: "Which British playwright won the...
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Apr 1, 2006 7:51 pm
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Blogs - everyone's at it. Good job too. Novelist Roger Morris has his own blog where he discusses Ian's recent review of Taking Comfort ; Ian is playing about...
Suicide: No Compromise - David Nobakht "...does a sterling job of chronicling Suicide's rise over 30 years with a cast of thousands describing what a huge...
The University Of Chicago Press is taking an interesting approach to promoting some of its authors - it's publishing lengthy blog essays written by their...
AAA-league neo-70s guitar rock starring the definitively adequate vocals of the singer songwriter. Leadoff number "Window in the Dark" steals the chilly...
Released in 2004, this one's a campy, theatrical pot of alt-noir French caf wallpaper and off-Broadway Rocky Horror enunciated in the Cribs-like accent of...
Sad news of the death of Grant McLennan, mainstay of wonderful Aussie band The Go-Betweens . Spring Rain , Head Full Of Steam , Streets of Your Town , Right...
steve
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May 7, 2006 5:58 pm
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Of course there are the big questions: the existence of God, the problem of evil, the meaning of life and how best to live it. But surely the biggest question...
steve
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May 8, 2006 10:18 pm
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Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors "...On his new album, the atavistic riotous Catholic streak of Irish blood is bubbling over in the ascendancy. The...
