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So, last Saturday saw Gilles Peterson’s first show on the wonderful 6Music, and it was great. Rambling, sprawling, diverse and, most importantly, oozing with a self-evident love of music, it covered everything from David Bowie to Paul Weller, Dr. John to Jamie xx, Quantic to Dinosaur L, and even a weird little cover of The [...]

It’s been a funny old week, as the saying almost goes. Last Friday I was visiting the UK, and spent a very enjoyable hour or two sipping ice cold lager in the roof garden of a pub in Wimbledon. 3 days later I was watching the city I called home for most of the last [...]

I’ve spent this weekend trying to get up to date with what’s new in music. And, for the most part, that’s involved trying to download everything that’s yet been created by Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, or OFWGKTA as they’re apparently known to their fans. This was brought on by an article in [...]

Right, I’ll be brief, so listen closely. This is amazing. The film it’s from is one of the best thing Tupac ever did (overrated doesn’t even begin to describe hip hop’s Kurt Cobain). The mix I first heard this on, Live At The Social by The Chemical Brothers is a perfect snap-shot of the mid-90s [...]

Around 11 years ago I returned from a great year in Australia, though when I got back to the UK I was very happy to be able to find great music without having to wait for a Gilles Peterson tape to be sent by a kind friend. And, so, one of my first buys after [...]

Many moons ago, when I’d not been blogging all that long, I wrote about a Radiohead cover I’d heard on Gilles Peterson’s show. It was a cover version of Just by some hip young New Yorker by the name of Mark Ronson; I thought it was pretty good and predicted big things for the lad [...]

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, [...]

A very quick post, like the last one was meant to be. Via Tom Critchlow I found Kind of Bloop: it’s a project where musicians who make music with Nintendos and similar equipment have recorded a track by track tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. I only wrote about Kind of Blue’s opening track, [...]

A very quick post this evening, a live rendition of So What by Miles Davis. Taken from Kind Of Blue, arguably the greatest jazz album of all time, it not only features the magical trumpet of Miles Davis but sax courtesy of John Coltrane, who was in Davis’ band at the time. Class, pure & [...]

Despite the fact that I’m still spotting gloves, there’s no doubting the fact that summer is nearly upon us (and apparently it’s going to be a good one too). With this in mind, I thought that I would bring your attention to D’Angelo’s excellent cover of one of the greatest summer tunes of all time, [...]