How many bands have we here got you to love? How many have we mentioned that you've looked up yourself and thought, hey, these aren't that bad. Well, if any I would hope iLiKETRAiNS are one. My word how good are they? I checked my bank balance the other day. Two hundred quid less than I expected. Which is, like, a good 95%. Hah. Good job I spent a ( Read more... )

Jobs for today, now that the glowing Magnétophone review has been done, include listening to Stephen Jones and Arctic Monkeys over and over while filling in a releases page with when people are putting out music we might want to buy. Doing that basically means going to every page on our links list and seeing if they're doing anything. Bit admin-y ( Read more... )

I'm too tired to write up this week's Twenty Songs. Basically Bearsuit were well up there again, this week followed by albums of the week Takk by Sigur Rós and Mother's Daughter And Other Songs by Tunng. Both albums, utterly majestic. Sigur's notable for having been around a lot longer than the others but only really coming into its own of late. ( Read more... )

Cleverly, for me, since I knew this week was going to be so hard for updates to the chart, I actually wrote it out in advance and updated it over the course of the week. All brains me. Man I'm falling asleep ( Read more... )

[We missed a week of Twenty Songs but we know nobody missed it so we don't care either ( Read more... )

Everyone's gotta get a little political. Currently playing here is Leaders Of The Free World by Elbow, the title track from their latest album, which I have only just purchased. It is a return to form for them as far as I'm concerned. Cast Of Thousands was very much a second album but this month I've had my faith in third albums emphatically ( Read more... )

Wow. Venus just broke Davenport's serve without dropping a point. Davenport didn't win a single point in her own service game. Beautiful. That's a purple patch ( Read more... )

Remember back in the old days of rave. That is, rave as in pre-house not 'rave' as in Bashment parties and junglist all nighters, old school rave. No, me neither, I was about eleven. Anyway, back then there was a song called Charlie out, which was just a little known outfit called The Prodigy throwing some happy hardcore over a sample of public ( Read more... )