No Music Day
It was No Music Day on… Saturday I think.  I tend not to pay any attention to these things as I find them a little gimmicky and not really something I really can be arsed thinking about.  Their wee poster is there on the right – just click the image to enlarge, assuming you speak a little German of course. Their tagline is also a lit

Toad on Fresh Air – 25th November 2009
Yes, it’s Fresh Air time again, and Ruth is back from the bring of death and ready to chatter away once more.  This week we have Russell from Mammoeth playing live in session for us.  He has an album out on Mini50 Records some time in the relatively near future, so we may try an weasel a preview out of him if we can. We’ve also got some interesting new stuff – Eels released a new song from their forthcoming album just the other day, and we’ll be playing the phenomenal new eagleowl single as

Fuck the Noughties
I know it’s the run up to Christmas and the New Year, but there will be no Best of the Decade lists on this blog, no sir.  The reason?  Well, for fuck’s sake, I’m just far too fucking lazy!  Christ almighty, no disrespect to the people who have the energy to do it but I wouldn’t even know where to begin raking back through all the albums released in the last ten years, never mind starting to filter them into some kind of sensible order.  Madness! So if anyone wants to ask me I’ll shrug and

Art Pedro – Epicedia
I often struggle to write about Art Pedro, because I never quite know how to phrase exactly what it is I want to say.  Basically, I almost always find myself thinking ‘okay, lots of good stuff going on, not quite sure I’d say it was entirely clicking for me, but I like a lot of the ideas happening here’. When I interviewed Jamie from The Japanese War Effort for Fresh Air Radio the other week he talked about how much work he would produce early on – throwing around ideas, sketching ou

Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers
I discovered Beat the Devil, Shilpa Ray’s previous band, through the brilliant Cable & Tweed, which sadly no longer covers an awful lot of music these days but used to be pretty much my number one source for new music on the internet. I was a bit gutted when Beat the Devil packed it in a couple of years ago, but it was made clear pretty much immediately that this was just a tactical shift