I used to make and listen to a lot of DJ mixes, but since I hung up my traveling headphones and retired to the obscurity of mixing at home, I also stopped listening to many other DJ’s work. I still keep my eye out for anything that looks interesting and have heard some great stuff [...]

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It maybe a shaky phonecam video – but it is unmistakably awesome – Gnarls Barkley covering The Reckoner live:

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The nomination list is out for the Mercury Music Prize…

Adele – 19
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Burial – Untrue
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Estelle – Shine
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep In The North Sea
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - The Bairns
Radiohead - In [...]

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The first trailer is on the air – House Season 5 is back in September!  (thats House – Series 5 for us Englishers)
I’ll be in the US in September – maybe I’ll catch the premier!
The song on the trailer is called – Love me Dead by Ludo btw (that’ll catch a few searches for sure!) [...]

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I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

At 73 – many men would be settling down to a life of repose, but Leonard Cohen has been on a comeback tour – taking in festivals and arenas all over the shop. Last night he took [...]

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I think there could be a message here – I have to stop listening to the voices – but twice in two days at the gym, this appeared in my random selection of tunes.
Gene – The Police will never find you
I’ve got a message here for you Because you hurt me [...]

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The BBC have installed a webcam over Glastonbury – thought I would check in, what a surprise – it’s raining!
I hope Jay-Z bought his Louis Vuitton wellies.

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Bleepshow is the kind of thing I would like to put together, but Pete Cooper has done  it much better than I would - although I may not have focused on Electronic music quite so much.
Bleepshow is a daily mix of electronic music that you can download, listen to online, podcatch and I’m sure [...]

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Interesting article in the Guardian by Mark Lawson this morning about publicists trying to release movies, books and TV shows without critics even seeing them – to save potential bad reviews.
It seems that increasingly the press are only getting to see movies at the very first public screenings (Friday afternoon on the day of release), [...]

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Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (in english – with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly) is the fifth full length album from Sigur Ros and is released on 23rd June in the UK.
For the first time, they have drafted in some outside production talent and enlisted Flood (Depeche Mode, U2) the [...]

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