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As I’ve said before, I’ve never been a huge Beastie Boys fan, in terms of buying their albums and listening to them all the way through, repeatedly. But a huge number of their songs have a large hold on my heart, and I’m guessing that there are plenty of people like me who will have [...]

Well, music’s a funny old game, as Jimmy Grieves might have said. Last year I wrote that Coldplay hadn’t done anything decent since their second album. I also wrote that I thought the Odd Gang Future Wolf Gang Kill Them Alll collective were a horrible shower of idiotic nihilists whom I had no intention of [...]

I downloaded  the new Jay Z & Kanye West album, Watch The Throne, last night and was, after my first listen, rather disappointed. Is this really the best that two of the most successful, innovative and inspiring hip hop artists have to offer? Boasting, girls, n***ers * bling? Much of it with beats & rhythms that [...]

I’m not normally a massive fan of The Beastie Boys, but an article in Friday’s Guardian reminded me of the teaser I’d seen of the rather bizarre short movie they’d made to promote their latest album. Well, other than to say that it’s really, really freaking weird, features more cameos than Altman’s The Player, and [...]

It’s almost as if everyone is determined to make me feel old. As if to highlight the fact that in less than 4 months time it will be 10 years since I saw in the year 2000 dancing on Bondi Beach, Absolute Radio are asking their listeners to help choose the Song of the Decade. [...]

  I know absolutely nothing about this other than the fact that it rocks, it was waiting for me when I logged into YouTube and I heart the video footage used.

A friend of mine recently made me a rather lovely mix CD which ranges from quotes from the amazing Anchor Man to the excellent spoken word track Beyond The Son by Koop. But the thing that really grabbed me by the ears (so to speak) as I listened to it on the way to work [...]

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 [...]

I was chatting to my sister the other day and mentioned (what I thought was) the classic line from the film New Jack City*: Wouldn’t wanna be ya, ABC ya! This got us talking about Ice-T who is absolutely amazing in the film and, at the time, seemed unable to do any wrong. The same [...]

Being a sad old man who spends his Sundays gardening and dreaming of roast potatoes, I tend to listen to Radio 4 on my drive to & from the station every day. However last night I was coming home a bit late so Radio 4 had switched from news & comment (Today & PM FTW!) [...]