In a world where Smile, Chinese Democracy, Duke Nukem Forever and Perl 6 have all actually been released, what archetype are we meant to use for an over-ambitious, never-to-be-completed project? And what did people use before those projects started? What do people who don't know about computers or rock music use ( Read more... )

When we interviewed '80s guitar legend Marty McFly two years ago, a technical error meant that the recording of one of the most interesting parts of the interview was lost. Fortunately, we have now been able to recover it.

The subeditor responsible has been fired.

PV: You played support on Wyld Stallyns' epoch-making Most Excellent tour. Why do ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago, I decided to re-evaluate my long-held hatred for Radiohead and their works, by sitting down and listening to their first five albums in a row. I learned that my teenage self was wrong: Radiohead are capable of producing good music. However, they don't seem to be capable of doing so consistently. Some of their albums I ( Read more... )

Today I shall be mostly listening to Radiohead, in an attempt to find out if they're as bad as I remember ( Read more... )

We've been to a couple of gigs recently, both at the HMV Picture House here in Edinburgh ( Read more... )

Do I like this because of my time in Glasgow, or because of my unexamined class privilege?

Ah, the hell with it, it's still funny.

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NB: Real neds are harder to understand.

Beware of the Train recently caught up with 80s guitar legend Marty McFly, and talked to him about life, love, his upcoming new album, and his mysterious fascination with the Old West.

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I thought some of you might be interested in this.

The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is attempting to shut down the DNA Lounge, the San Francisco live music club owned by former Netscape/Mozilla/XEmacs hacker legend Jamie Zawinski. Firefox users: without this guy, the Mozilla project probably wouldn't have got off the ground ( Read more... )

You are all hereby advised to connect your favourite audiostream-listener to http://teal.neostreams.info:20711/, where DJ Bronxelf is spinning some fine tunes for at least the next couple of hours. Or if you're in Second Life, she can be found at The Tube nightclub, which has been incorporated into the Great Underground Empire for the duration ( Read more... )

My musical guilty pleasures are Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5 and Republica's Ready To Go.

What are yours?