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Three new things to look/listen/learn.

April 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Photo of the We20 Tuttle in full swingV .quick post this, just to highlight some fun stuff that’s happened in the last couple of days.

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Tags: Geek · Music News · music reviews

Donation-ware music…

March 12th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Jesus is For losers website screengrabI think blogged about this album when the first few tracks became available, but ‘Jesus Is For Losers‘ by Calamateur is now finished, all the tracks are up, along with artwork, at www.jesusisforlosers.co.uk

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15 albums that changed my life…

February 26th, 2009 · 14 Comments

This post is taken from a current Facebook Meme, and the title is fairly self explanatory. Some people have done 25 albums. I’ll just write til I run out… :) These won’t be in any particular order (just don’t categorise music like that) and will definitely be incomplete and open to change:

Joni Mitchell - Hejira album coverHejira - Joni Mitchell: I think I’ve written about this before on here. When I first heard this I was playing in a really trad New Orleans jazz band (OK, Trad up to the point where they had me on electric bass sitting in for the double bassist when he couldn’t make it), and the band leader was pretty fascistic about the music he thought was acceptable. So the trombone player, Sandy, used to slip me dubbed cassettes of things he thought I needed to hear…

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What my musical friends are up to…

October 9th, 2008 · 5 Comments

I’ve been telling you a lot about what I’m up to musically of late, but I’ve got some rather talented friends who’ve been busy too, so here’s a quick and incomplete round-up of what a few of them have been doing:
First up there’s Ben Walker - fellow Tuttlist and fab singer-songwriter. He was writing 50 [...]

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Tags: Musing on Music · Uncategorized · music reviews

A new review…. of And Nothing But The Bass..??

May 11th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s amazing what you can find looking at your web-stats - I was browsing through mine, seeing who had linked back to this site, and found a review just posted on a blog in January of this year, of And Nothing But The Bass (my first album, for those of you a little late to [...]

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More amazing free music

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Right, I’ve got loads of fascinating stuff to blog about (no, really), but that can wait, cos right now, I’ve got loads of great free music to tell you about. First up, Lobelia is giving away a whole album of voice ‘n’ piano stuff on Reverb Nation. The album, called 040515 (the date it was [...]

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Tags: Musing on Music · cool links · music reviews · website recommendations

Billy Bragg/KT Tunstall at HMV - the value of screwing it up…

February 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I went to a fabulous lunchtime gig yesterday - Billy Bragg and

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free MP3s featuring Nels Cline…

January 7th, 2008 · No Comments

My other latest recent musical obsession is guitarist Nels Cline. Best know these days as the guitarist in Wilco, he’s nevertheless been a mainstay of the LA experimental/free/out/weird scene for decades, as well as guesting with some big name dudes like Mike Watt (his guitar playing features heavily on Contemplating The Engine Room by Watt [...]

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End of year eMusic round-up…

December 31st, 2007 · No Comments

So, end of December, time for everyone to do their end of 2007 best music lists… I’m just going to offer the stuff I got off eMusic, and a few of them were released in 2006 even though I didn’t get them til 2007 - with the way digital releases go, things released on CD [...]

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This week in review

October 12th, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: Music News · Musing on Music · Random Catchup · music reviews