New Streets album in April: The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living, apparently. Will Skinner experience Junior Jump-the-Shark (3rd album vers. of the Sophomore Slump)? Were Streets albums exciting just because they were exciting? Is the game still fun? Will he make a great album?

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I hate that my last few entries in here have been so Mancunian across the board (ok, I actually don't mind it at all), but I've been listening to this elegy/eulogy and a question/discussion-point sprang to mind: Is the (thrice repeated) line "same old order" a swipe at Hook, Sumner & Co.? Interesting, considering the song was written for Ian ( Read more... )

Perhaps I shouldn't be shocked to the degree that I am by these quotes I just unearthed via google, but I AM surprised (and thrilled) by the sheer *amount* of credit this half of New Order heaps on Mr. Peel ( Read more... )

Idea for future blog (soon), and a request for comments ( Read more... )

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Hi. My name is Emily, and there are some things I've been listening to lately that have made me happy, and I'd like to recommend them to you thusly:

Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville

This is a reissue on Secretly Canadian, all newly slick-sounding and generally prettified. If you've never heard the Maps you seriously need to get on board like ( Read more... )

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Your Taste in Music:

90's Hip Hop: Highest InfluenceProgressive Rock: Highest InfluenceClassic Rock: High InfluenceGangsta Rap: High InfluenceOld School Hip Hop: High InfluenceDance: Medium InfluenceHip Hop: Medium InfluencePunk: Medium InfluenceR&B: Medium InfluenceSka: Medium Influence80's Alternative: Low Influence80's Pop: Low Influence80's ( Read more... )

Tonight, in preparation of doing my taxes and in need of some aural wallpaper, I decided to put on a record I've shunned for a while. It happened to be At The Club by erstwhile Sunderland pop band Kenickie, an album I warmed to around 1999 whilst firmly ensconced in a Velvet Goldmine/Pulp/Roxy Music (read: anything screaming Glamorous! And at ( Read more... )

I've had this song in my head for about a week, but I didn't know anything about it except that I thought I had heard it on Nick's old radio show (now I'm not so sure, though.) I didn't remember any words, and the only vocal parts I could remember were just sort of "AHh. AH! AHh." Can't really search for something like that on the webernet, and ( Read more... )