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A blog about popular song by Mark Higgins.
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Some rather good music from Adi Ulmansky
In: New Music
8 Jun 2011Adi Ulmansky – One Octave Up (audio only)
Being in the business of blogging, I occasionally have the pleasure of new music dropping into my inbox. Sometimes that music is very good and I’m very proud to announce that this is one of those occasions.
Adi Ulmansky is an Israeli electronic type musician, and this song (which [...]
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Robyn – Call Your Girlfriend
In: Music Video| New Music
2 Jun 2011Robyn – Call Your Girlfriend (Youtube)
You know what is always good? A new music video by the really rather good popstrel that is Robyn. And that’s what we have here, and it is brilliant.
Accompanying my very favourite track from last year’s Body Talk album/set of albums (I forget how it all worked out in the [...]
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Innocent Pleasures: Ten Sharp – You
31 May 2011Ten Sharp – You (Youtube)
Here’s a song that’s amazing: You by Ten Sharp. They’re Dutch you know, which in addition to making very good music means they also put chocolate sprinkles on toast and call it food.
Anyway never mind that because here’s the latest in a very occasionally recurring feature I like to call Innocent [...]
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I am currently putting my hands up like it’s 1987
In: New Music
20 May 2011And I strongly urge that you do the same because this is A BIT BLOODY AMAZING.
Get this in your ears:
Nerina Pallot – Put Your Hands Up (Like It’s 1987) [We Are The Chatterleys Mix] by Nerina Pallot
Courtesy of We Are The Chatterleys (which is Nerina and hubby Andy Chatterley) comes this amazing slice of [...]
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AlunaGeorge – We Are Chosen
In: Music Video| New Music
5 May 2011AlunaGeorge – We Are Chosen (Youtube)
I was lucky enough to pop over to the rather lovely Bull & Gate earlier this week, where I had the pleasure of taking in a set by the hot new band type people AlunaGeorge. At least, I did when they got started – due to some sort of technical [...]
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The Death Set – We Are Going Anywhere Man
In: Music Video| New Music
2 May 2011The Death Set – We Are Going Anywhere Man (Youtube)
I bloody love The Death Set. There’s something wonderfully insane about their Beastie Boys-influenced, antipodean originated, Brooklyn based punk rock madness. To whit, the band’s description for this video for their new single from second album Michael Poiccard:
We wanted to throw a party on our roof [...]
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Introducing Endtroducing….. on Brighton Festival Radio
In: Radio
29 Apr 2011Listen live from 8-10PM on Thursday 12th May by clicking here, or on 87.7FM in Brighton
Hooray! The Brighton Festival is back from 7th May, and that also heralds the return of Brighton Festival Radio. It was brilliant doing shows last year – The Sounds of Space featuring Professor Brian Cox was a personal highlight.
I’m delighted [...]
Lykke Li – Sadness is a Blessing
In: Music Video| New Music
28 Apr 2011Lykke Li – Sadness is a Blessing (Youtube)
WELL HELLO THERE.
Yes I know it’s been like a month since I last updated this blog. But I got a job! Well, a different job. A busier job. That requires me running around quite a lot, leaving precious little time for rambling on about videos on the internet. [...]
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Metronomy – The Look
In: Music Video| New Music
1 Apr 2011Metronomy – The Look (Youtube)
Metronomy and I have had something of a rather cool relationship over the past few years or so. I first came across them back when – god help us – I actually updated my Livejournal. Back then, when they were playing at the Wireless festival, I gave them a rather low [...]
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Two Wounded Birds – All We Wanna Do
In: Music Video| New Music
28 Mar 2011Two Wounded Birds – All We Wanna Do
Short song, short video, short post. It’s Margate’s finest Two Wounded Birds with a song featuring some rather loud guitars. Also there’s a Wimpy involved. It’s very good.
The band were in session for Lauren Laverne at BBC 6 Music today and they were very loud indeed. You can [...]
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- Bitter Fingers Radio Volume 18: Quite Good Songs Of The Year
- I CAN’T STOP LISTENING TO SELENA GOMEZ
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