pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog

How can we live without this?

Thanks to Steve at Scissorkick for this one.
Hexstatic - Bust [MP3]

The textures of these illustrations are nice and gritty. I’m also a fan of the color choices. Subdued and restrained but not boring…..
Check out the illustration gallery.
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Everything these days has to have green or a sustainable connection to it so of course the internet has gone green too with the latest Yahoo! website green.yahoo.com In it’s list of the top ten sustainable cities Portland ranks #1 so Portland Prius owners can rejoice, with the exception being the speeding Prius owners I [...]

Words cannot express the excited excitement feelings I’m having about this…but I’ll give it the old college try.
The only thing more majestic than Lou Diamond Phillips playing King Arthur in the Broadway production of Camelot would be Bea Arthur playing Ritchie Valens in a dinner theater production of La Bamba.
And as that hasn’t happened [...]

I started the day today with PJ Harvey as queen of darkness. Now I’m inclined to mention Emilie Simon as the French teen of darkness - Nirvana’s Come As You Are accompanied only by piano. I shouldn’t jump to conclusions though, this all I’ve ever heard of hers. Thanks to Ashley Plath.
Emile Simon - Come [...]

When I declaim here about the state of rock music I need to remind myself that there are many diamonds in the rough and of course one of the brightest (and darkest) is Polly Jean Harvey. I haven’t had chance to hear the whole album ‘White Chalk’ yet but the UK’s Observer is one of [...]

Prefuse 73 - Beaten Thursdays [MP3]