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Mojo Music Magazine – The alternative take

  What do you need to know about it? Mojo Magazine is a British “Rock” magazine, although it covers other music. It covers very little hip hop or dance so I suppose it’s main focus is Rock, pop, folk,...

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The Super Furry Animals – The alternative take

What do you need to know about them? The Super Furry Animals formed in the early nineties. Are a Welsh rock / pop / tecno band with leanings toward psychedelic rock. In late 1995 they were signed to...

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The Wire (HBO) – The alternative take

What do you need to know about it? The Wire is an in depth HBO police drama show set in Baltimore centred initially around the police’s efforts to reduce the drug trade. It was actually about a...

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Led Zeppelin – The alternative take

What do you need to know about them? Led Zeppelin were a fabulous hard rock group, from the seventies, perhaps the biggest at the time. – Oh come on I’m not going to explain the whole thing here,...

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Record shop day and Amoeba records

Yesterday was Record store day, a day to support independent music stores, for the music fan anyway. I suspect most people don’t care too much. That might be a shame considering how many music stores...

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Back to the Future Trilogy – The alternative take

What do you need to know about it? Back to the Future was a film released and set in 1985. High school student Marty McFly gets accidentally sent 30 years into the past, stops his parents falling in...

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Blur – The alternative take

What do you need to know about them? Blur are (or were) a British pop / rock band consisting of four band members; Damon Albarn (mainly vocals and keyboards), Graham Coxon (Guitar), Alex James (Bass),...

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Am I too addicted to buying new music?

Some recent buys and yes, I’m boring enough to burn downloaded music to CD so I can also play it via my stereo. No results to “the experiment” parts 1 or 2 this week, I haven’t got round to writing it...

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Notes on where ideas come from – 1

This is the crux of writing isn’t it? Well creative writing, fiction, poems and the like. Generating ideas and turning it into a “something”. This is one of those things that sets us apart from other...

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The music map of me, and you

(Image courtesy of Microsoft Clipart) In most cultures around the world, in some way, our lives are linked to music. It might be through traditional songs that tell stories of our culture, it might be...

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Music Albums of the year 2012

Regular readers know I like a music post from time to time. This one is my end of year look at this years best albums. For me, this year had plenty of good albums, but not one I think that stood out as...

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A haiku of music

“The Seer” by The Swans I did have a slightly linked post almost ready, but in a slight departure from the last post, and as I always like a music post from time to time, I am going to combine an...

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The song or album that represents the time that is…

Image courtesy of Microsoft Clip Art Posts at the moment seem to have either a common theme, or somewhat refer back to an earlier post. Recently, I was having some discussion with a friend about music...

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How Bowie could not give everything away

The temptation was to return to blog posting on Monday 11th January. This was the day the world at large heard of the passing of the music icon, artist, rock god, known to most of us as David Bowie....

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