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Spielberg, Warhol and Bianca Jagger chilling out on a hotel bed

January 7th 2009 08:00
Bianca Jagger wedding sideboob

Found on BoingBoing, this retro video of Steven Spielberg, Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger talking on a hotel bed.

They are talking about some crazy stuff, man, and BoingBoing suspects copious amounts of cocaine were involved.




The above photo is from the Sydney Morning Herald, taken by Patrick Lichfield on the wedding day of Mick and Bianca. Is it just me, or is she showing an awful lot of skin in that shot? On her wedding day?

Stevie Spielberg, though, in the video gets rolling, talking about ghosts in the TV and radio in his teeth... his films seem so straight up that this video seems unbelievable in comparison - though if you've seen the truly execrable "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls", it's less unbelievable.


*this image is from the Sydney Morning Herald
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Michael Jackson converts to Islam

November 17th 2008 23:41
Michael Jackson in a veil in Bahrain
Billie Jean wasn't his lover, and he was both Bad and Dangerous, but Michael Jackson has finally converted to Islam, leaving his Western animal farm behind.

That's right - Neverland is closed, the pathers were sent home, and Michael Jackson is dressing up as a Muslim woman in Bahrain



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Nelly - Brass Knuckles

September 18th 2008 06:45
Nelly


After several delays, Rap star Nelly has released his latest studio album, Brass Knuckles, on Sept. 13 in Australia and Sept. 16 in the US


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Lady GaGa - The Fame

September 11th 2008 09:55
Lady GaGa


Stefani Germanotta aka Lady GaGa is an upcoming singer-songwriter from the US best known for her mastery of the dance-pop genre and her hit debut single "Just Dance" which has generated considerable airplay across North America, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand


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Great Instrumentals by bands that have a singer

August 21st 2008 02:25
Moby Dick was a big angry whale
The AVClub has a terrific list on 29 instrumentals by bands that usual have vocals, and it's complete with fun YouTube videos to back up their claims.

While I'm happy to pass up the video by Rush, it was the clip of Led Zeppelin's "Moby Dick" that reminded me why John Bonham was such an explosive drummer


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Newton Faulkner - Hand Built By Robots (Tour edition)

August 14th 2008 23:27
Newton Faulkner


English singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner burst onto the music scene after the release of his number one debut album Hand Built By Robots in July 2007


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Katy Perry - One Of The Boys

July 21st 2008 23:21
Katy Perry


US songstress Katy Perry has taken the music charts by storm with her worldwide no.1 smash hit single "I Kissed A Girl", a seriously infectious and catchy number that deals with sexual orientation and to a certain extent, promiscuity as well


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Tiλsto - In Search Of Sunrise 7

July 3rd 2008 00:34
Tiesto


In Search Of Sunrise 7: Asia is the seventh volume of a trance mix-compilation series by Tijs Verwest aka DJ Tiλsto, the world's most famous trance DJ and producer in the electronic dance music scene


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Jon Lajoie on the real thoughts in a man's head

June 3rd 2008 02:11
Jon Lajoie is a musician that makes music videos and posts them on the internet. His songs are humorous, often poking fun at himself and men like him.

He found quite a bit of fame with his "Everyday Normal Guy Rap" song, which is just catchy enough to merit a repeat


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Lefty Blues Guitarist - Barbara Lynn Ozen

April 11th 2008 10:12
Barbara Lynn Ozen lefty guitarist
Barbara Lynn Ozen was left-handed Texan guitarist, famous for her quick, upbeat style and her impressive resume of playing with the big singers.

She got a little burst of popularity a few years back, when Moby covered one of her songs, "I'm a Good Woman


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Duffy

March 21st 2008 23:15
Duffy


Amy Duffy, mostly known as just 'Duffy', hails from Gwynedd in North-west Wales and is one of the most interesting and talented singer/songwriters to have emerged for aeons and has been credited by the UK music industry as the sound of 2008


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Kate Nash

March 13th 2008 06:30
Kate Nash


Twenty year-old London singer/songwriter Kate Nash took the UK music industry by storm in 2007 with her single, "Foundations", waltzing into the UK singles chart at #2 before peaking at #1 a short while later


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Liking The Pixies makes you a little crazy

February 12th 2008 09:16
The Pixies
The Best-of-Craigslist is a great way to take a little cross-section of online America and have a damn good time reading it. It's fun, sometimes sad, sometimes thrilling.

This cat in Austin wrote a long-ass post about how he managed to not see the Pixies play a secret show, twice. It rose to the top of the list, perhaps because he uses such colourful language


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Rihanna

January 24th 2008 21:15
Rihanna


Since bursting onto the music scene in 2005, global R&B sensation Rihanna has released a total of three albums - Music of the Sun, A Girl like Me and Good Girl Gone Bad - with sales topping the 15 million unit mark worldwide


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Suede

October 25th 2007 21:30
Suede
Suede


Suede were one of, if not, the most popular and influential English rock bands of the early to mid 90's


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Radiohead asks you to decide the price of their new album

October 9th 2007 18:45

Radiohead is doing something wild for their newest album, In Rainbows.

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PM has ceated a Monster!

March 21st 2007 17:20
Oh, just look at what's going on here at this old post about Lil Chris.

Those comments! They hurt! Is PM naive to think that these people should be locked up somewhere? God, the internet scares me sometimes... I mean, what are these people gaining from this? Are they just annoyed teenage girls or is PM having the piss ripped out of us by hilarious peers? One of them calls PM ugly! And we all know that's not true, right guys?
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The Bees at London Astoria

March 20th 2007 12:53
Ooh, what fun they were on the 7th of March! Just look! There'll probably beE a review of the show up on DiS later this week and I can't be arsed to write another, so just enjoy the pictures, yessuh?

The Bees at London Astoria

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A Finlay Video...

February 24th 2007 19:33
...of their slightly delirious 'Phantasmagoria'.

Oh, enjoy!
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Dananananaykroyd Interview!

February 14th 2007 19:32
Woop, here's the reason PM has been so slack of late... typing up this bitch took forever, so recognise it, yuss?

Go here!
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Gabrielle 25 take months to arrive...

January 25th 2007 20:39
A good six months ago, PM placed an order with Lawrence Music (run by prolific steel guitar player John Lawrence) for an EP by Gabrielle 25. I mostly was interested in having a copy of their sublimely lilting country song 'Every little thing I say gets you down', heard on one of my varied John Peel tapes, inevitably intended for some Wedding Present session or other. Just a happy accident that I came across it, I suppose. Gabrielle 25 have, to the extent of my knowledge, not done a great deal besides this EP and another album (which, entitled 'Twenty More Fish In The Sea', is ace).

So imagine my surprise when, this morning, after having long forgotten about the placed order, that particular EP should plop onto the doormat. Attached was a note from John Lawrence himself (he plays geetar on a few tracks, in fact) telling me that this was in fact his last copy, his personal copy! Zoinks! That's generosity. PM cares not that it was months late in its arrival, just that I might have deprived someone of their own work. So John, if you're reading, heartfelt thanks.
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PM is watching American Idol...

January 20th 2007 14:43
It's weird, though, isn't it? Where the British version was balls-out entertainment every step of the way, propogated by the entertaining honesty of Simon Cowell and the subsequent separation of wheat and chaff till something we, the public, can be proud of remains. But this doesn't seem to run quite as smoothly in American Idol. PM is sat in the lounge watching the audition show, which is getting rather strange.

Them there be judges...

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Ordinary Boys Preston in Moody Twat Shocker - But Why?

January 13th 2007 12:12
As you've probably heard, Sam Preston from the world's premiere Madness tribute act The Ordinary Boys has thrown a strop while on BBC2's 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks' quiz show. Host Simon Amstell read extracts from his wife Chantelle Houghton's not-too-challenging auto-biography, leading the singer to storm off in a pissy cloud.

Preston from the Very Ordinary Boys

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And who's topped the Album list?

January 8th 2007 15:02
It's only the bloody Semifinalists... And it's only the 8th of January! Most end of year lists were done WEEKS ago, but not good old pioneering PM.

Album No. 1: Semifinalists – Semifinalists
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Who's Topped The Songs List? Ooh, it's...

January 6th 2007 14:21
Song No.1: Dananananaykroyd – Song One Puzzle

Do you want to have this song summed up concisely? Yes, you do.
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Semifinalists Nearly Top PM's OTHER List

January 5th 2007 08:29
Song No.2: Semifinalists – You Said

Semifinalists have, this year, provided a shock. Their utterly fresh, crisp, brittle, dangerously teetering, violent, tender, monolithic, whispered and thundered songs have the kind of personality and inhabitable world that comes after years of familiarity and exposure. 'You Said' is, without doubt, the finest example of this on the band's self-titled debut record. Beginning with the most naοve and wandering of choral washes and gentle laments, it soon explodes into the greatest pop riff of the year and some thrilling retarded guitar wizardry.
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Tunng - Woodcat

January 3rd 2007 19:53
Song No.3: Tunng – Woodcat (from 'Comments Of The Inner Chorus' on Static Caravan records)

Now, PM has already posted extensively about this particular song and how it provided one of the live highlights of the year, but it doesn't hurt to keep on saying how very special this song is. Music is not often made with such a dense aura around it, and the sinister whimsy of 'Woodcat' is indicative of one of the densest yet. It is the exaggerated tale of a man desperately searching for someone to turn him into a hare so he can join his love once again. Simple! But the joy of 'Woodcat' comes not from the batty narrative, but the real heart of the song is in the painful observations. 'I miss having coffee in bed watching TV' lament singers Mike and Sam, in a way that bubbles perfectly with the lilt of its accompanying acoustic guitars and pleasant bleeps.
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Yo La Tengo nearly top PM's list...

January 3rd 2007 14:34
Album No.2: Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)

Also providing one of PM's live experiences of the year clearly wasn't enough for YLT, so that they've recorded an album so consistently entertaining and beautiful is a wonderful bonus. Oddly, a large share of the many highlights of that show came from this record: the pulse of 'Pass the Hatchett', the Glenn Miller via Mud stomp of 'Beanbag Chair', and the shimmering guile of 'I Want To Go Home'… this is Yo La Tengo at their strongest and most reliable.
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Finlay - Mary IV

January 3rd 2007 07:17
Song No. 4: Finlay – Mary IV

This song marks the moment when Finlay shed any vestige of exterior influence. All those people who said, on release of their first record, that they sounded so much like Pavement that Mark Ibold accidentally joined them (NB: not true, just made that up) can consider themselves utterly silenced forever. While they did sound a bit like Pavement, they were always careful to inject their own shambling idiosyncrasies to keep it just far enough away from their influences.
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My Latest Novel - Sister Sneaker, Sister Soul

January 2nd 2007 18:47
Song No. 5: My Latest Novel – Sister Sneaker, Sister Soul

The only flaw with My Latest Novel's debut 'Wolves' LP stems from this very song. Not that it's in any way to blame, because it's certainly not. Placing this track at the midpoint of the record leaves a nice arc towards and away from it, leaving a nicely symmetrical album template, but the sheer brilliance of this apotheosis means the the second half of the album can only be appreciated in relation to 'Sister Sneaker, Sister Soul'. It's great, but nowhere near as good.
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Songs Continue With Semifinalists

January 2nd 2007 12:34
Song No. 6: Semifinalists – Show The Way (from 'Semifinalists' on V2 Records)

Formed of nuggets that nestle uncomfortably next to one another like warring nations (i.e. the most entertaining way possible), 'Show The Way' is a neat summation of the Semifinalists' aesthetic. Beginning with the kind of plaintive, non-descript, plinky electronic harmonies that they can now pretty much patent, drummer Chris Steele-Nicholson's eagle-soar of a voice swoops into delicate action. As he sings of his enemies and friends with no little veiled menace, it is impossible not to feel that something horrible is on its way to destroy what's been created.
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Finlay... and Happy New Year from PM!

December 31st 2006 19:16
So the lists weren't posted in time for year's end, but who cares, yeah? Not PM, we just care about getting drunk tonight. Which, let me assure you, is already a task in the completing. Go Finlay!

Album No. 3: Finlay – The Fall Of Mary (Fortuna POP!)
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Euros Childs - Chops

December 29th 2006 23:56
Album No. 4: Euros Childs – Chops (Wichita)

After the sad demise of his former group, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, one could expect front man Euros Childs to rest on his laurels for a while and take stock of what was left. But no. For Childs, the best thing to do was write some clearly beautiful and insanely idiosyncratic songs about donkeys, ice cream and surfing and then perform them in every venue available for about 10 months. This was a good idea.
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Am I Repeating Myself? Eh, DST?

December 29th 2006 19:49
Another band that is literally invading PM's lists...

Album No. 5: Daniel Striped Tiger – Condition (Alone Records)
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The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics

December 29th 2006 07:19
Album No. 6: The Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics (Warner)

"They'll never do it!" the crowd screamed, "not after the last two albums being so damn good!" But the Lips managed to keep all the central tenets of what makes them special and apply it to a rather cosmic new collection of songs: the fuzzy aesthetic, the wonderful dementia of Wayne Coyne's words, Stephen Drozd's watery production, the scope and spectacle of recent years. It's all there. With "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" they announced themselves (not for the first time) as pop composers of impeccable loftiness, with "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion" they announced themselves (not for the first time) as psychedelic mood-setters par excellence, and with "Pompeii am Gotterdammerung" they announced themselves (not for the first time) as epic crafters of monumental sadness. In short, this is a part of the bigger picture, a step on the way to sonic perfection for this most inimitable of bands.
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The Low Lows... again...

December 28th 2006 23:18
Grr, get out of PM's lists...

Song No. 7: The Low Lows – St. Neil from 'Fire On The Bright Sky' (Warm Electronic Recordings)
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Christmas and Daniel Striped Tiger...

December 26th 2006 19:02
Sincerely, PM hopes you all had a wonderful Christmas. I can tell you with no hesitance that the red wine truly did flow in a most festive direction all the live long Christmas Day, it certainly made it a specatcle...

But we're still counting sirs!
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Weez Countin! The Low Lows - Fire On The Bright Sky

December 20th 2006 09:02
Album No. 7: The Low Lows – Fire On The Bright Sky (Warm Electronic Recordings)

As 'Fire On The Bright Sky' relaxes around you, its luxuriant atmosphere caressing the surrounding air, it becomes utterly obvious that this is the work of people who are well-versed in delicate constructions and who know the value of waiting before giving a musical pay-off. The stop-start slapdash of '(No Such Thing As) Sarah Jane' is expertly paced with an ending so impeccably woven through with viscous horns and strings that satisfaction is not so much guaranteed as gospel-intoned.
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Still Counting Down...

December 19th 2006 08:59
Yep. Can't be bothered to find any news. So stick around and enjoy the countdown! Maybe be some pictures of Dark Captain Light Captain up a little later in the week, provided PM makes it to their show tomorrow night. Huzz-yeah!

Album No. 8: My Latest Novel – Wolves (Bella Union)
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Fanfarlo - Tuesday (Come When We Call)

December 18th 2006 14:24
Song No. 9: Fanfarlo - Tuesday (Come When We Call) (Fortuna POP!)

Fanfarlo have announced themselves this year, under the gentle fist of Simon Aurell, as an avenue for the future of pop. His gentle compositions are brimmed with a genuinely exciting combination of mainstream saleability and pure craft. This tune, the B-Side from the 'Talking Backwards' single, exemplifies everything that Fanfarlo can become. Quirky, beautifully tuneful and completely heart-breaking, its paean to suggestibility and caving in is perfectly judged. When Aurell laments that his subject 'swallowed all that we put on your plate', it is wrenching but compulsive. The winding saxophones and plopping recorder lines intertwine to wonderful effect, slithering around eachother and withering with time like Aurell's lovely narrative. These elements combine with impeccable balance to create a minor emotional miracle, a minor miracle that, one hopes, is a mere drop in the ocean. It is important that people buy Fanfarlo's records - their pop is new and good. 'Tuesday' is proof of that.
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Jim Noir - Tower Of Love

December 16th 2006 14:29
Yeah, weez countin still, braaap!

Album no. 9: Jim Noir - Tower Of Love (Barsuk)
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Puffy AmiYumi

December 12th 2006 19:01
The countdown continues, dunnit! Today we can kick off with songs.

Song no. 10: Puffy AmiYumi - Nice Buddy (from their 'Splurge' record on Tofu)
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End of Year Already? Err... Yeah! Album and Song Top Ten Begins!

December 11th 2006 23:03
PM is, as usual, unbelievably sorry for any lack of posting over the last few days. Trust me, uni stuff has been piling up as fast as the pile of empty cups and biopot carcasses strewn about my hole. Thankfully, it'll all be over soon and normal service can resume, yeah? Yeah! So, in the spirit of being dull, lazy and nicking other people's ideas, PM is going to start posting a top ten albums and songs of the year. Starting today!

In case you're wondering (and chances are that you're not), I had to compile one or two end-of-year sorts of lists for a couple of different places. The first of which, Treble, worked on a writer-voting system and BARELY ANY OF MY CHOICES GOT IN! But y'know, go there (here) anyway for the first chunk of their song list. Just wait till my choices pop up nearer the top... and I had to pick 50 albums and 50 songs for Treble... grr... not really, I love those guys.
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Six Organs of Admittance Live Pics

December 8th 2006 13:11
Eh, it wasn't a great show on the whole. Supports were disappointing, particularly the often-majestic Sunburned Hand of the Man who, after a triumphant set at this year's Green Man Festival, played a monumentally indulgent set soundtracking rather frightening Ira Cohen film. Very noisy, lots of atonal crashing and smashing...

But Six Organs went a long way to restoring the faith, thankfully doing a great deal of Ben Chasny's more tuneful stuff. Opening with 'Torn By Wolves' was a good idea. Lovely stuff. Not many pictures, but yeah.
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Father Of Boon

December 3rd 2006 22:18
Monday mornings are SHIT aren't they? That's why PM has deemed it appropriate... nay... mandatory that you go and listen to Father Of Boon. In their own words, they are "...a ten-legged, wrong-headed beast hailing from the frenzied wilds of the East London/Essex borders." Sounds like a laff, dunnit? Sharing members of pitch black folk whimsy-bringers Dark Captain Light Captain is also no bad thing to brag about. And seeing as we're knocking around the East London/Essex borders, one can truly appreciate the hilarious accents deployed and spat out on every track like the fires of racial hatred for Kramer. But nicer, obviously.

On first listen, it's all a bit silly. But then you actually stop thinking 'oh yeah, that Streets guy, he's got the well-funny accent too, dunt he?' and understand the frustrations that FoB are gacking up in your face. There's a non-descript fury to it all that could smack of laziness, but joyfully, so joyfully it just smacks of random attacks on the listener, of child-like lashings to get attention. That's a compulsive base. Insurrectionary, guerilla violence and the veiled tunefulness (look hard, they're actually dead ringers for Guns 'n' Roses widdles and chonks, in the best way possible) combine to massively entertaining effect. Saxy squawks and gnat's-chuff drumming keep it light, saving it from sounding like The Fall's depressingly leaden output of late, and there's just enough venom in the varied vocal displays to ensure we don't wander into self-nullifying idiocy. When you read and discover that FoB were partying with Mclusky when they were still going, it kind of makes sense. They have the same disjointed mania for minutiae that made them so simultaneously frivolous and destructive, but FoB are probably a bit more 'street'.
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Monade, Fugu and Ueh Pictures

December 2nd 2006 15:57
Last thursday saw the close of The French Disconnection's seasonal shows for French acts to pop over to London and make us dance. Laetita Sadier's Monade headlined the evening in fantastically wispy and complex style, while ample support came from Fugu (the French McFly but good?) and Ueh (Acid Mother's Temple collaborators and drone perfectionsists), whose double album PM has now bought and is enjoying at night-times immeasurably. In short, it was another wonderful gig from this wonderful strand. Highlights included the bowed-bass transistor radio freeform exploration of Ueh, who claimed their regular drummer was unavailable due to being in prison, and the climax of Monade's wonderful 'Wash And Dance'. Dangerously propulsive. PM was lucky enough to snag an interview with Ms. Sadier, who is utterly charming, a tad potty-mouthed ("Shitshitshit!!") and wonderfully enthusiastic about her music. She hangs out with Dave Pajo, you know!

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Another Dananananaykroyd Live Video...

November 25th 2006 12:49
I know... too many posts about the same bands. But this is ace. Just please go and look how ace. Here! Best moment - 38 secs in, when it all kicks off... then when one of the drummers pops off for a wander. Great stuff.

PM's copy of their new single 'Some Dresses' plopped through the door this week, and I dread to think how much battering that vinyl has taken in repeated plays. I am incapable of taking it off. And when it's on, PM dances like the ghost of Sammy Davis Jr. What's that Kramer? You don't like Sammy?
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Everett True Signed My Book!

November 23rd 2006 12:05
Last night PM pootled into London to see Everett True talk about his new Nirvana book. As an initial inflitrator of the grunge scene in Seattle (and more, importantly, Olympia), True built up a massive reputation among that scene and, in recent years, has found a new audience through his magazines Careless Talk Costs Lives (issues of which counted down from #12 to #0) and Plan B. Today, he talks about his new book which, he insists, is not a biography of Nirvana, just a story from his point of view (and several others).

Everett True

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Dark Captain Light Captain

November 2nd 2006 13:19
Dark Captain Light Captain


It might be time for a folk pun about now ("folking hell, folk off, this band are folking ace!" etc. etc.). But probably best leave that, cos I just heard 'They Be Underwater' by Dark Captain Light Captain. It's folk, Jim, but not as we know it. NO! Stop punning, PM! This is becoming ridiculous... Try again...
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The Q Awards - Soft Target, I Know...

November 1st 2006 00:30
But seriously - what the hell is wrong with Q? PM realises that it's nothing more than a read-on-the-tube-nice-shirt-young-man-substitute-for-those-who-are-too-old-for-NME-too-many-hyphens-load-of-old-dad-rock-bollocks rag fit for nothing more than using in conjunction with a lovely old mug for getting rid of spiders or clearing up cat shit, but this is just a complete insult to those with conical brass receivers for ears. Look at this old cacky maffed-up chundering bollyhocks:

Best New Act - Corinne Bailey Rae (Try and name more than one song by her)
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