Because today’s Sunday. Because it was a totally left-field cover for Faith No More, probably the biggest alternative rock band around when they released it (the Red Hot Chili Peppers of their day, even though the Chilis were around at…
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Tune Of The Day: Faith No More – Easy (Commodores Cover)
Tagged with: 70s, 90s, Commodores, cover version, Faith No More, Lionel Richie, rock, soul
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Posted in Music
Tune Of The Day: Marc Mac Presents The Visioneers – Paul’s Guitar Story
Marc Mac has been close to the beating heart of contemporary British for over two decades now. He was genre defining in the early 90s dance/hardcore movement, as part of A Homeboy, A Hippie & A Funki Dredd and redefined drum & bass…
Tagged with: 4hero, drum & bass, hip hop, Marc Mac, samples, soul, Visioneers
Posted in Music, Uncategorized
Posted in Music, Uncategorized
Tune Of The Day: Ty – Like You Never
I’m a bit of a one trick pony. Or maybe two or three tricks. There are a couple of little obsessions I have, and I tend to keep coming back to them. One of these is how ridiculous it is…
DJ DSK & Mystro – I Know You Got Sole (Heaven) [Eric B & Rakim Cover)
I’ve written before about DJ DSK (AKA my old flatmate from Sydney, Nick). And I’ve written about Eric B. & Rakim before. Well, now my Nick/DJ DSK has got together with a rapper called Mystro to do an homage to…
Tagged with: Advertising, Bobby Byrd, cover version, DJ DSK, hip hop, Kanye West, KRS-One, Mystro, samples, SOle Heaven, soul, trainers
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Posted in Music
The Best New* Albums Of 2011
Well, that’s 2011 more or less wrapped up. Where the bloody hell it went, I have no idea, but, as I do most years, I thought I’d finish it by wrapping up my favourite albums of the year. Now, I…
Tagged with: Beastie Boys, brownswood, DJ 2 Tone Jones, Fleet Foxes, Ghostpoet, gilles peterson, grime, hip hop, indie, Lee Fields, mix, rock, samples, soul, the streets
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Posted in Music
Larry Gold – Travelin’ feat. Kameelah Waheed
Whilst my grand plan to hit shuffle on my iPod every day, and then to write about the first track to come along, didn’t last much past the new year, I have been using shuffle a lot recently. But rather…
Maverick Sabre – I Need
Well, this is the joy of Glastonbury (by which, obviously, I mean watching it from the sofa). As, the ever more lovely, Lauren Laverne, and, the ever more Peel-like, Mark Radcliffe, take over the coverage (after a U2 set that,…
#shfl11: Brass Construction – Happy People
Well, #shfl11 finally seems to be doing what I’d hoped it would: introducing me to music I have never encountered before, despite it being on my iPod. Today, Happy People by Brass Construction, which is certainly the worst band name…
Tagged with: #shfl11, 70s, Brass Construction, disco, Earth Wind & Fire, funk, Kool & The Gang, remix, samples, soul, The Gap Band
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Posted in Music
#shfl11: James Brown – Soul Power Pt. 1
Well, after the obscurity of yesterday’s #shfl11 entry comes a song that I know very well, and love even more. James Brown was, arguably, one of the two or three most influential musicians of the last 50 years, if not…
#shfl11: The Roots – The Return To Innocence Lost
They say that the new year is a time to take stock and so I thought I’d take stock of my iTunes library. As of today it stands at nearly 15,000 songs and I’m increasing it every month by buying…
Tagged with: #shfl11, Common, hip hop, John Legend, protest soul, soul, spoken word, The Roots, Ursula Rucker
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Posted in Music
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