Tag Archives: music

sleeveface

You might have seen Sleevefaceing before, but this blog collects all the best ones from the Flickr group. You’ll all be trying it now…

Music Fact

Mark Ronson is Mike Flowers, and not even good Mike Flowers. Can he please go away?

I’m going to spend my Christmas with a Dalek

One with a cold, it seems when you listen to this frankly awful, but somehow wonderful Christmas single. Daleks’ voices are done electronically (I hope I’m not spoiling the magic there) – not here it seems.

Hot Manatee on Glass Action

Been laughing at this manatee for some time, but felt it needed a touch of synth-pop.

Heavy Trash at The Hare and Hounds

Weeeeeeellllll, I’d like to ask you ladiesungentlemun do you feeel allllright Cenyewrockunroll inthuhareundhoundz? Thankyewvurymuch.

Gwen Stefani at the NIA

Gwen Stefani (yes, I know, not my usual thing, a return of a longstanding agreement from the last time I dragged my other half to watch Belle & Sebastian or somesuch) is not averse to using the odd bit of popular culture – in the first half hour she’s played songs that piggy-back on Topol [...]

Loldylan

Bob Dylan invents lolcats You’ll have to click, can’t find where in the source the flashcode is hid. Site is incredibly flaky (and sending only worked on a PC in IE7) but it’s still very cool.

Polyphonic Spree at the Glee Club

EncoreOriginally uploaded by bounder The Polyphonic Spree are indie’s worst nightmare, a matching 28-piece army-cult of pure exaltation. The bass player throws rock poses in front of the harpist, the brass section dive out of the crowd for a mosh, the Glee club even take out the seats and relax for once. I wonder if [...]

A Tribute To A King

It’s not often you get to read a Marxist appreciation of Elvis: Elvis posed a dilemma for capitalism, but it was not an insurmountable one. Eventually it preserved him as a commodity but destroyed him as a musician. Often this is blamed on “Colonel” Parker. Parker was both incompetent and scared that Elvis might do [...]

My Off the Top Of My Head 50 albums

Copying an idea here. I deliberately did this quickly, without recourse to my shelves iTunes, or any other electronic means – No particular order, except they are in the order I thought of them. I’m surprised by the absence of The Jam, The Who and any soul – I guess I either couldn’t think of [...]