Tonight’s best new tune was the glacially calm ‘Broken Monitors’ by B. Fleischman. It’s one of those songs that never labours but builds gently into a twinkling clockwork lullaby. You can have a listen to a clip of the track for yourself at the Morr Music site but you’ll need pesky Flash installed. Mr [...]
Archive for November, 2005
Never trust a copper
Britain’s senior police chief is to be investigated over complaints that he gave misleading information about the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian electrician wrongly suspected of being a suicide bomber.
The conduct of Sir Ian Blair, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and his staff, will be examined by [...]
Randy “war profiteer scumbag liar” Cunningham
A Republican congressman pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy and tax charges - tearfully resigning from office, after admitting he took $2.4m (£1.7m) in bribes to steer defence contracts to co-conspirators.
Randy “Duke” Cunningham, 63, entered pleas in US District Court to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud and wire [...]
A “trophy” video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
The video has sparked concern that private security companies, which are not subject to any form of regulation either in Britain or in Iraq, could be [...]
It’s getting near Xmas. In this season, we should spare a thought for those less fortunate. Not in January or the rest of the year, fuck ‘em then, just for the next thirty or so days.
Doing my bit, I found the above tramps in the city centre. They were obviously crackheads, they were muttering [...]
One morning in late September 2005, Deb was riding the public bus to work. She was minding her own business, reading a book and planning for work, when a security guard got on this public bus and demanded that every passenger show their ID. Deb, having done nothing wrong, declined. The guard called in federal [...]
Tonight’s top new song was Cats On Fire’s ‘Higher Grounds.’ Part of the new wave of Scandi superindiepop, Cats On Fire make effortless, breezy pop music. It just rolls into your life and into your heart. Plus, their guitarist Ville is a pretty good dancer when you stick Jonathan Richman on. Again, if you [...]
If you buy this month’s Sound On Sound magazine (and, if you’re a techy musician, you should), then you’ll get a copy of the SOS Live supplement. And on the cover is a pic I took of Dead By Dawn. It’s actually this pic.
I’m extremely chuffed to get my first magazine front cover. Plus [...]
iTunes has become the seventh largest music retailer in the US, competing with high street music stores.
New research from the NPD Group shows iTunes climbing from last year’s fourteenth place to become as powerful as most music stores on the high street, and predicted the service would edge out more stores by the end of [...]