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

Foreign Born on Chuck from FB on Vimeo.
I like it, the song that is. Foreign Born Into Your Dream - [MP3]

British Sea Power “would like to announce the release of a new EP - one that will combine a pre-school understanding of atomic theory with ancient wisdom in amplified rock music. The five-track Krankenhaus? EP will be released digitally on 8 October and will be download-able from digital retail sites.” Meanwhile visit their site for [...]

I love the interweb. I just got an email a few minutes ago from Adam Heathcott who, along with his wife Sara, runs Hometapes out of Boulder, CO. His email was to let me know that one of the bands on his label, Slaraffenland, who hail from Copenhagen, Denmark will be playing the Towne Lounge [...]

Here’s a flash-embedded player from my Imeem site.

I’ve finished reading about The Future of The Music Industry and thought it was worth drawing attention to this paper by Koleman Strumpf. It’s a much longer read but it certainly debunks the record industry’s notion that file sharing is harming their business. In fact it says that just the opposite is happening. And the [...]

Portlander Adam Forkner aka White Rainbow creates magical musical moments that one must spend time with. No hurry here; he lists his influences as Jon Hassell, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Brian Eno and Tangerine Dream and if you know of at least one of those artists, then after listening to the Waves MP3 from [...]

Call me cynical (I am) but hey, I’ve always had a problem with Sonicbids; any company that purports to offer a service that can help a band get connected to promoters and vise versa while asking for a sign up fee has to be treated with the proverbial grain of salt in my book. They [...]

I’ve been banging away at this blog since the first official test post back in December 2005. Consequently, 17 months later, there are currently 1000 posts and 1,468 comments contained within 32 categories and 934 blogs link to us. I pretty much wrote them all but these days the blog has some amazing contributors - [...]