Billy Bragg – It Says Here It says here that the Unions will never learn It says here that the economy is on the upturn And it says here we should be proud That we are free And our free press reflects our democracy Those braying voices on the right of the House Are echoed [...]
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Jul 072011
100_2179(originally uploaded by Naufragio)Defective by Design I made a post four months ago to the Galaxie 500 Mailing List (I thought I posted it here as well but I guess not) about the dilemma of downloading music rather than buying CDs. I’ve always bought records and CDs – I see it as a physical representation [...]
Jan 022007
Joanna Newsom 1(originally uploaded by Coastal) Albums Ys – Joanna NewsomNo doubt the best album of the year – beautiful, ambtitious, unique and utterly engrossing – it deserves a bit of effort. II – EspersSweet, cool and enveloping folkiness I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass – Yo La TengoA [...]
Aimee Mannphoto by Elston Hazel and I had been discussing the sacrifice of integrity and artistic control that signing to a major label, or publishing company always seems to involve and she mentioned that Aimee Mann had managed to distance herself from the evils of the record industry. She was instrumental in setting up United [...]
Nov 082006
I sort of hate how I keep picking on The Decemberists because deep down I think they’re probably a good bunch of people and what’s happening is just the standard shit that happens when you sign to a major label. A few years ago I signed up to a “a relatively unobtrusive once a month [...]
Jun 152006
I recently uploaded to youtube a video of Luna playing Lovedust on the Conan O’Brien show from a few years back – and while I am of course NOT the copyright holder and therefore WAS breaking the youtube terms and conditions I thought that as it was a low res video of virtually no resale [...]
May 052006
When you wake up to the fact that your council is Tory Just remember, there are two sides to every story BBC NEWS | Election 2006 | Seat-by-seat | Ealing council I want to blame the people of Ealing for putting these vermin back in charge but the blame really has to lay at the [...]
This week I discovered that social networking horror MySpace is owned by the atrocious News International (which already makes my love of The Simpsons, Futurama, The X-Files etc. difficult). Not, of course that I’m anywhere near being a a fan of MySpace. The very lovely Flickr jumped when Yahoo clicked their fingers, the Decemberists happily [...]
I bought the Coltrane/Monk CD last year and was disappointed that it had “Copy Control” and that Blue Note had decided to treat me like a thief. I pledged to never buy another copy-protected CD and this is making my journey into jazz all the more problematic. I went to Amazon today to buy A [...]
Arghhh – having taken the no doubt substantial wedge of cash from Capitol I’d liked to think that The Decemberists heart was still with their fans but it seems that it might only be with their RICH and/or GULLIBLE fans. Colin Meloy – having just completed a solo tour apparently has a few copies of [...]
