Album: ENNIO MAZZON – The Scent of Morning Lights (Timetheory TMTH040 2008)

If you had the time and the patience, you could spend the rest of your life downloading and listening to new music, and never pay a penny. I’m not talking about dodgy P2P networks, bootlegging or piracy either. The Internet Archive (www.archive.org) lists more than a thousand netlabels, most of which release new music for [...]

Gig: RED SNAPPER / CINEPHILE (Oran Mor, Glasgow, 29/11/08)

Red Snapper took a five year break at the end of 2002 to pursue other projects. At the time it was perceived as the end of the band, but this has proved not to be the case. On the back of a new mini album, the trio of guitarist David Ayers, bassist Ali Friend and [...]

A Few Forthcoming Releases (December)

This month’s list of things to look out for. There’s more good stuff than is usual for a December.
Dec 1st
FLIPPER – Sex Bomb Baby (Water)
HEXSTATIC – Hexstatic Presents Videos Remixes and Rarities (Ninja Tune)
HUMCRUSH – Rest at World’s End (Rune Grammofon)
JOHN ZORN – Filmworks XXI: Bellede Nature (Tzadik)
MURCOF – the Versailles Sessions (Leaf)
NEIL LANDSTRUMM – Lord for 39 Pounds (Planet [...]

Deluxe double reissue with unreleased track, unpublished photos and an “I have been mugged by the record industry. Again” sticker.

In a week or so’s time, the fourth Pavement album Brighten the Corners gets the deluxe edition treatment. Like the previous three, this promises to be a bit of a treat with 34 bonus tracks taken from singles, EPs, live shows and demos etc crammed into a package set at mid price. It’s five years [...]

The M M & M 1000 – part 6

Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. We’re on to the Bs now.
COLOURBOX – Baby I Love You So / Looks Like We’re Shy One Horse (4AD BAD604 1986)
The Young brothers’ two 1986 singles were both their finest and final moments. “Baby [...]

Goodbye Mojo

I’ve been buying it since issue 6, but increasingly have been wondering why I bother. it’s forever churning up the same old ground where it used to look outside of the obvious on occasion. Remember Nick Drake on the cover (before he became the soundtrack to Estate Agent wankers’ dinner parties)? Kraftwerk, Miles, George Clinton, [...]

Album: MIRA CALIX – The Elephant in the Room: 3 Commissions (Warp WARPCD169 2008)

I’ve been a fan of Mira Calix aka Chantal Passamonte ever since her first couple of albums. Her brand of home-listening electronica fitted well into the Warp brand, but perhaps wasn’t distinctively hers enough to really stand out.
The Elephant in the Room is a long way from those earlier Warp-works. It’s a collection of nine [...]

The M M & M 1000 – part 5

Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. This completes the A’s.
ONLY ONES – Another Girl, Another Planet / Special View (CBS 6228 1978)
Almost makes heroin addiction sound like fun. Guitarist John Perry is the star on this one, with his unforgettable intro, [...]