Song of the day – 227: Lykke Li (free download)
This is primal. Damn. Is that all I can think of to say? Played it twice, thoroughly entranced. This is sexual. Third time, I was hooked. Damn. Is there a certain age, beyond which I’m not allowed to refer to sex within discussions of music? Or is it always OK/not OK? This is thunderous. Damn, […]
Plan B Magazine #0.5 – the alternative cover
Andrew really didn’t like mocking up too many alternative covers. Me and him and Chris had quite a few arguments about it early on, but ultimately – fuck it – he was the designer, not me. Here’s the only other choice I can find for the Joanna Newsom one. I prefer it now.
quite a revealing blog entry about editorial policy at Q and NME
One of my regular correspondents on Twitter recently published this blog entry. I thought I’d reproduce it here, because I find it to be quite revealing: partway explanatory of what goes on behind the scenes at the mainstream rock press.
Song of the day – 226: The John Steel Singers
I never make my mind up before hearing something, but I wasn’t really expecting to like this. Too perky, thought I vaguely. Too Triple J, thought I vaguely.
Song of the day – 225: The Loves
Of course I have a crush on the wrong girl
Plan B Magazine #0 – the alternative covers
Here are a selection of the different photographs, designs and logos we were looking at for the first cover of Plan B Magazine. Most of these weren’t serious contenders: some of the visuals were drawn from Careless Talk Costs Lives, used so we could mock up dummy designs; The Von Bondies weren’t ever a real […]
Song of the day – 224: The Psychedelic Furs
The saxophone was an asset, not an encumbrance.
Song of the day – 223: Mindy Misty
Grunge. Done badly, it’s horrendous. (I was going to link to a Silverchair video here, but thought better of it.)
