April 2012
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Camden Crawl 2012 part 1 - the state of the UK...
Next Sunday I am going to the Camden Crawl festival - think of it as a London analogue to SXSW, except without anything like the same clout. I have been once previously, in 2006, and decided on that occasion to review all 51 acts on the bill for my blog. This meant that I got a chance to slag off The Fratellis and The Holloways before most people had even heard of them, and to completely...
Apr 29th
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WatchWatch
thesinglesjukebox: NAMIE AMURO - GO ROUND [6.17] This one doesn’t have five-headed megaphone skronking, sadly. Katherine St Asaph: Solid and tuneful but unshowy: the [7]-est [7] ever. [7] … [Read and comment on The Singles Jukebox ] I’m pleased to see this idea continued and up for doing so until we’ve filled up the whole rating scheme: [10]-est [10] ever: ? ...
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Finished playing the video game Journey today. It was very, very pretty and the end was touching. However, I am now reading about people’s amazing emotional experiences playing it and the connections that they formed with their anonymous online companions (e.g.) and feeling a bit cheated, because I met ten people in it and didn’t really form any kind of connection with any of them.
Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 22nd
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Cowell v computer
This news article is about a project to create a computer program to judge a music contest (“My judges also have pet hates and guilty pleasures” - argh). I thought that the highlight of it was going to be the way that it waits until after the second subheading to drop the bombshell that the computers are judging a dubstep competition. Then I got to this photo and caption:  So...
Apr 19th
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A(n over)simplification of "Rubber...
katherinestasaph: anthonyisright: A) “They were better before they were important, right?” B) “We, the critics, find this to be the greatest work of an artist that has proven important.” C) *trumpets* “BEHOLD, THE UNDENIABLY IMPORTANT ARTIST SPEAKS!” I’ll go two steps further: D) The solid work that some people think is a peak that arrives after non-fans have stopped giving a shit. Some...
Apr 18th
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I guess I should add to that Nicki post..
…that “Roman Holiday” and “Come on a Cone” and “Gunshot” are just about ahead of “Pound the Alarm” and “Champion” as my favourite tracks on the album, but I am one of those people who would might not have got so into her to begin with if it wasn’t for the heavily pop leaning songs.
Apr 18th
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It's Alive: Did Nicki fail pop, or did pop fail... →
theremixbaby: dalatu: jordansargent: This isn’t a rhetorical question; I’ve been thinking about it for a bit and still am not sure of the answer, if there even is one. But, now that the fervor over Roman Reloadedhas died down, I think it’s interesting to think about what the album means to pop. Is Nicki currently unable, or maybe unwilling, to navigate the waters of pop without resorting...
Apr 18th
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fun fax
the20000: The only times Australians have appeared in the top two slots on the UK singles charts were the week of January 6, 1990 (Band Aid II’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” — with Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue — and Jason Donovan’s “When You Come Back to Me”) and this week, with Gotye and Kimbra’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” topping Sia’s guest spot on David Guetta’s “Titanium”. Gotye...
Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Mobile phone accessories
Went to Argos to buy some new in-ear headphones today as my previous ones broke (this happens quite regularly; I have given up buying expensive ones because they never last long enough to be worth it). They are now classified as ‘mobile phone accessories’!
Apr 4th
Albums I have listened to in 2012
In the absence of the time/ability to write album reviews, I present an infodump of every album that I have listened to in 2012 so far. Bolded are the ones that I liked enough to buy. Please recommend anything that I’m missing that you think I would like! Spotify playlist that I use to keep track of this, with a track from each album. As ever, none of the Asian stuff is on Spotify and all...
Apr 3rd
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Jai Paul's myspace →
Look at the press section!
Apr 3rd
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“… even as the postgame reviews came in mixed—some sniping about Madge’s lip...”
– Chris Molanphy crunches the numbers and reveals something that might surprise people: On the charts, Madonna acts like a classic rocker.  (via sotc-nyc) (via maura) I love this kind of analysis. This album marks the point at which she’s finally gone that way in the UK as well - “4...
Apr 3rd
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“But calling it the start of a new British Invasion can only be done if you...”
– The Illiterate Ooh, that is good.
Apr 3rd
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