Not much to say. Davy Jones, the “cute” one of the pre-fab four, passed away early this morning of an apparent heart attack. If you don’t know anything about The Monkees, it was a cheap cash-in TV show designed to channel Hard Day’s Night into a weekly teeny-bopper series. It started off as a show [...]

Radiohead began their King of Limbs tour yesterday, and I have to say am I rather excited, not least because I’m lucky enough to be going to see them in Italy in July, but because as a Brit I am very proud of them. To still be producing such brilliant records and touring is without [...]

Albums tend to grow on a large portion of the music community over time, but none quite so much as Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane over the Sea” It has been more than 10 years since this classic was first released, and I am going to have a look at its legacy, and the [...]

A Young up and comer with over 20 albums already behind him releases new minimalist epic in March. With the possibilities of the internet slowly being harnessed,we have come into a golden age where the modern day composer can actually get his stuff  ‘out there’ with little interference or fuss  from outdated record labels and [...]

Right off the start here, let me give my opinion. I Like It! But that’s largely because I like this kind of music coupled with my irrational desire to like everything that Macca puts out there. The album itself? It sounds good. It’s not over produced, not too too shiny. Even the orchestrated stuff sounds [...]

I found this 1979 BBC documentary on the history of recorded music (the focus is on electronic music) on YouTube today and thought it was interesting enough to share: Part 1: