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The Just Joans and the wonderful world of wee POP!
Petite and pleasingly-packaged pieces of pure indie-pop perfection! The Just Joans are just about the most Glaswegian thing that I have ever heard. They sing in broad Scotch accents, make reference to 'the local', 'the telly' and the general humd...
The Morning Benders - The Bedroom Covers
I'm just stopping by with a quick post to clue anyone in who doesn't already know about The Morning Benders' The Bedroom Covers. Just like it says on the tin (or the album front at least), this is indeed cover versions of well known songs that were a...
Mercury Music Prize shortlist announced
The nominees for this year's Mercury Music Prize have just been announced. And it goes like this: Adele 19 British Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music?Burial UntrueElbow The Seldom Seen KidEstelle ShineLaura Marling Alas, I Cannot SwimNeon Neon Stainle...
More goodness from the YouTube Screening Room: 'Sebastian's Voodoo' and 'Ryan'
Sebastian's Voodoo A creepy looking, but beautifully animated and ultimately sweet, short. Voodoo - Screamin' Jay Hawkins Voodoo Village - Tony Joe White Hoodoo Voodoo - Billy Bragg and Wilco Voodoo Spell - Cuatro Caminos Ryan "Four decades a...
New from CSS...
CSS are back with their latest (second) album, Donkey, which was released yesterday. It's good, but I have to say that it has, to date, left me feeling a little underwhelmed/unmoved. It is fine, it is well-produced, but it is, well, forgettable. They...
Face off with Facebook - getting the message across
This rocks my socks. Teresa Valdez Klein of teresacentric.com was so pissed off with the number of targeted weight loss ads on Facebook that she decided to do something about it. Shelling out $5.00 per day to place her own advertisement, she came up ...

