Rumbled!

This is a truly hilarious story: Maxim have been rumbled writing a review of an album they’ve never even heard. Superb!
What happened was that they printed a review of the new Black Crowes album, and weren’t especially generous, and they did it before the actual album was sent out to anyone for review [...]

The Waiting Room, With Added Gin & Toads.

Well folks, tonight I get my revenge. You all know DC -One Half of Drunk Country - the foul-mouthed miscreant who is forever coming on this site and ruining my thoughtful and sophisticated analysis with vulgar outbursts and showers of obscenity and invective? And the one who did THAT!!–> to my lovely drawings? [...]

More, Newer, Shinier! The Dodos.

I am literally falling over myself for new music at the moment. There’s barely even been any time for my incoherent, ill-informed rambling insightful social commentary this last week - it’s all been about cranking out the new posts about new things and getting newly overwhelmed by all the God-damned NEWNESS! And it [...]

Bear Country - Bloody Gorgeous

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If you like your gentle Americana sparkling with handclaps and drenched in some of the loveliest, most soulful vocals you’ll hear this side of, erm, Shane Macg… no, er, Tom W…  no, er right.  The most soulful vocals you’d ever be shocked to hear at a site so dedicated to miserable old grumblers as [...]

Toad on Blogfresh Radio

Greetings all.  Just to let you know that I am featured on the latest Blogfresh Radio, talking about iLiKETRAiNS.  Bill did a remarkable job of editing it all down to something short enough for the format, because I didn’t half go on a bit.
Click here to listen.

I Think This Might Be a Good Thing

Well OiNK appears to be about to bite the dust. For those of you who don’t know, OiNK is a filesharing site where people share pre-release copies of albums for nothing. There is a minimum quality, so you know you’re getting a good product and you are ‘invited’ to donate to the site, [...]