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On Friday Absolute Radio announced the result of its song of the decade vote: shockingly the top 10 doesn’t include the Arctic Monkeys, Strokes or White Stripes but does include two songs each by The Killers & Snow Patrol, a sign that whilst the station may be excellent, the average Absolute Radio listener gets most [...]

So, when Absolute Radio announced their quest to find the best songs of the decade, I said that I found it hard to pick any. Well, I’ve changed my mind, thanks to some inter-office discussions (ending in this playlist) and listening to a lot of stuff from the last ten years. Like this. And so, [...]

Whilst some people crave a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, for many the way they know they’ve made it is when they get their own pair of trainers. Well, with the release of the limited edition Nike Airs that he’s designed, Dizzee Rascal can take comfort in the fact that he has definitely [...]

After years of being critically acclaimed but ignored by the mainstream (a situation similar to that described by The Roots in Act Too with the line “when we perform it’s just coffee shop chicks & white dudes”) Dizzee rascal has obviously decided that he likes the kind of success and attention that came with his [...]

I’ve just been flicking through the crap that makes up Saturday TV when I came across one of these interminable ’50 Best (insert genre here)’ shows on 4music. Except that this particular show was being presented by our next Prime minister, Dizzee Rascal, and was made up of the best team-ups. Being Dizzee, it has [...]

I was going to call this post the best singles of 2008 but living as we do in the age of iTunes, I’m just not sure how relevant singles are these days. That said, I’ve tried to restrict my choices for the Best Songs of 2008 to tracks that weren’t only released on albums. However, [...]

As I’ve mentioned before I can’t stand any of the major breakfast DJs so have my car stereo tuned to Radio 4 (I find listening to news of the world’s imminent collapse on Today much less annoying than even 30 seconds of Chris Moyles). However if I get home after 7 I find that I’ve [...]

Paxman – Do you believe in political parties in Britain Rascal – Yeah, they exist, I believe in them. I don’t know if I care Paxman – Well why don’t you run for office? Rascal – See, that’s a very good idea, I might have to do that one day still. Dizzee Rascal for Prime [...]

Courtesy of Chungaiz, comes this track from The Brighton Port Authority (BPA) which appears to be a new band from Fatboy Slim (AKA ex-Housemartin Norman Cook). It features David Byrne on vocals (who seems to be doing all his best work as a guest vocalist on house tracks these days) as well as a great [...]