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Tuesday, May 1st, 2012Yup, It’s pretty damn cool. There’s the great man’s home studio! You can click on various items to find various resources. But the thing most of us will go for first is the record box. When you click the record box you are taken to his record collection. From the blog about the site: After [...]
(Eli Porter) People’s Champion: Behind the Battle
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011People’s Champion: Behind the Battle from Trent Babbington on Vimeo. Fascinating doc about the “Eli vs Envy” rap battle which blew up in 2008. “I’m the best, mayne. I deeeeiid it” Long pause Long pause Share
LP and CD Sale Memorial Day Weekend – Woodstock / West Saugerties
Monday, May 24th, 2010Zip’s Ziggurat presents another Huge! Insane! Music Yard Sale 10,000s of LPs , CDs, 45s +12”s rock, pop, hip hop, country, dance, world, folk, reggae, soul, alt.rock, jazz, funk, punk, r+b, metal, classical, techno, new wave, house, old-timey, breaks, spoken, 80’s, electro, blues, promos, DVDs (music + features), tons more Insultingly low prices As low [...]
Are The Dum Dum Girls The Shop Assistants?
Friday, April 2nd, 2010And would the Shop Assistants have gone further had they been produced by Richard Gottehrer? Share
LCD Soundsystem “Drunk girls” (unofficial video) – Officially wonderfully bad taste
Friday, April 2nd, 2010Thanks to Will for the tip Share
Steve McQueen: Vinyl Abuser
Friday, March 26th, 2010Recently published photos of Steve McQueen reveal the “King of Cool” to be a vicious vinyl-abusing fan of shag carpeting. Leaving aside the issue of the carpeting, for which he perhaps cannot be blamed, let us dive headlong into the horror. In one particularly gruesome shot (above) McQueen straddles a graveyard of records strewn on [...]
Must read – Charlie Gillett
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll Charlie Gillett’s master work. As this post goes to press you could get it used from $4.76 Highly recommended. Share
Alex Chilton didn’t *always* sound the same.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010We don’t post too many RIPs here, but on trawling the net the other day we came across this oddity from 1996. Alex Chilton, Ben Vaughan and Alan Vega get together for some true spookiness. Hadn’t really occurred to us to post it, but the news of Alex Chilton’s death prompted me to go back [...]
What if you like a tune but it might be bad for the world (#389 in a series)
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Uffie feat. Mr Oizo – MCs Can Kiss Annie Mac played it the other day and the context made it sound good enough to listen to again. On my fifth listen I am still conflicted. Her attitude is great, but the beat isn’t. Her lyrics are stupid/fun but the flow ain’t fine. The hook is [...]
What Would You Do If I Sang Autotune
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Wow. A while back we all commented on the amazingly bad Ringo Starr TV appearance on the Daily Show. Here are the Evolution Control Committee with their version…. BTW, singing out of tune while lip synching to the real tune is very difficult. Thanks to MarkR for the tip Share
The A & R Guy
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Just is case you were thinking about a career as a DJ or producer…. Share
Lhasa de Sela RIP
Friday, January 8th, 2010A bit late on this one: She passed Jan 01 of breast cancer. I have been a fan, on and off, since “La Llorona” was released in ’97. And the latest CD makes my PoOPlist for 2009. Very sad. And she was born in Big Indian, NY Her site: Lhasa de Sela Share
2 vids on 1 song from Major Lazer – One more disturbing that the last
Friday, January 8th, 2010I had really hoped against hope that this most obvious of all the hits on the Major Lazer record would be selling shedloads by now, but it was not to be. But “Keep It Going Louder” has yielded two very distinctive vids. The first is somewhat normal, the other is … not. Major Lazer Keep [...]
PoOPster Hubris Warning: The Decade in Music Genre Hype
Monday, January 4th, 2010Funny and insightful, Christopher R. Weingarten (he of the 1000 twittered album reviews) has “a solemn tribute to the once-hot-shit trends that (mostly) won’t be joining us in the ’10s” New York Music – The Decade in Music Genre Hype Serves as a sobering grounding for those of us compiling our PoOP lists this week… right? [...]
My heroes… Chase & Status
Sunday, September 27th, 2009Perfect record for a soggy and gray day spent fiddling with records. Their LP from last year was pretty good drum n bass, but nothing could have prepared us for this. I first heard it back in April and it’s been growing on me ever since. Once again, turn up the bass if you can. [...]
Or, you could just buy a proper LP…
Monday, September 14th, 2009Dissection of the new iTunes “LP” feature. Apparently each can be 500MB in addition to the actual “music”!! http://jayrobinson.org/2009/09/11/some-notes-on-itunes-lp/ Share
Sound archive of the British Library goes online, free of charge
Friday, September 4th, 2009Sound archive of the British Library goes online, free of charge – so The Guradian tells us. (But I can’t yet make it work…) Share
HUGE MUSIC YARD SALE! – 10,000 CDs, LPs, 45s, DVDs – Labor Day Weekend
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009HUGE MUSIC YARD SALE! – 10,000 CDs, LPs, 45s, DVDs – Labor Day Weekend Zip’s Ziggurat presents another Insane! Music yard sale 10,000s of LPs , CDs +12”s Rock, pop, hip hop, country, dance, world, folk, reggae, soul, alt.rock, jazz, funk, punk, r+b, metal, classical, techno, new wave, house, old-timey, breaks, spoken, 80’s, electro, blues, [...]
If this were a just world…
Thursday, August 6th, 2009… New Order would sell as many songs off the back of an Absolut ad as Chris Brown sold off the back of some poor couple’s wedding dance video. Share
There are 75 Bands in this picture (or so we are told)
Friday, July 24th, 2009Here is an ongoing list of nominees: http://friendfeed.com/eskimo/0c7c46f9/there-are-75-bands-depicted-in-this-picture-let Share
Staff Benda Bilili – “Je T’aime”
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009Thanks to Raissa for this. That “lute/tin can” sound has been torturing me for a coupla weeks. Now I know where it comes from. Downloading from emusic now… Share
Robots respond to “Death of Auto-tune”… All-out Battle Imminent?
Monday, June 8th, 2009Video done by the peerless Jay Smooth. Check his great blog: and vlog : Share
New De La Soul track:
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Big Mouf (free mp3 download) Share
Official vid for Major Lazer “Hold The Line”
Saturday, May 30th, 2009spot the Black flag samples. Diplo and Switch go downyard and make a yardie tape for the new era. Feat. Santogold among others. Previews at rcrdlbl.com and full drops on or about June 12. You thought the air-raid siren was done? Think again. Share
The Damnwells Let ‘Er Rip
Friday, February 27th, 2009The Damnwells, possibly the hardest-working band you’ve never heard of, have decided to give it all away, here. They play Live at The Mercury Lounge, April 4th. Share
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