Pampelmoose by Dave Allen of Gang of Four — music . media . web. culture

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I spent a very pleasant summer evening at Edgefield last night watching and listening to a couple of my favorite bands – Menomena and TV On The Radio. After the show I spent some time chatting with Kyp Malone, Dave Sitek and Tunde Adebimpe. Me and Tunde (above) found ourselves discussing the vagaries of online [...]

“Already joint favourite for the prize, I think, in all likelihood, Harvey will become the first two-time Mercury winner. Let England Shake is a masterpiece, a profound and serious meditation on mankind’s apparently endless appetite for self-destruction, filtered through the Dorset native’s complex feelings of love, pride and disappointment in her own country.” [Link]
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The focus of the music industry is downloads – but is this the smartest move? Figures show most people still want to listen to CDs, plus there has been a boom in vinyl sales

Whenever I discuss the Internet’s disruption of the recorded music business here I notice how defensive the comments become, especially from musicians and record label folk. Having gone back to read hundreds of past comments on my digital music articles during the last few days, I see that the response themes lean heavily toward the [...]

A new cut from their upcoming From The Basement session..

The band played a surprise show at the Glastonbury Festival on June 24. The show was not broadcast by the BBC, but 34 people shared their footage and James Clarke put it all together. [Link]

There were a couple of MP3 radio web rips of these two cuts from the three guy’s limited edition 12″ vinyl a couple of months back, and although it’s been an ok listening experience the DJ kept getting on my nerves, so I decided to do some editing of the tracks and while I was [...]