Since a folk album heading my 2007 chart would once have seemed as unlikely as Bono making Man Of The Year, I should probably qualify things. On the whole, and with a very small number of exceptions, … more →
Speakers Push Airdubversion wrote 10 months ago: Since a folk album heading my 2007 chart would once have seemed as unlikely as Bono making Man Of Th … more →
dubversion wrote 10 months ago: OK, before the main event, here are some of the albums that almost made the list from 2007.. The Fal … more →
dubversion wrote 10 months ago: OK, then. New York hipsters blah blah blah blah. Punk funk blah blah blah. Mark E Smith does disco b … more →
dubversion wrote 10 months ago: Warning: dangerously fan-boy moment ahead. I seem to have this personal roll-call of great lost arti … more →
dubversion wrote 10 months ago: Authenticity is a fairly bogus concept in music at the best of times, but I do remember the first ti … more →
dubversion wrote 10 months ago: Mark Lamarr commented the other day on his end of year round-up show that he didn’t really see … more →
dubversion wrote 10 months ago: After the last couple of overwritten entries, I almost can’t be bothered to write about this o … more →
dubversion wrote 10 months ago: OK, from one extreme of US punk to the other. NoFX are gloriously dumb, scatological, drunken anarch … more →
dubversion wrote 10 months ago: So I mentioned that my favourite live act in the world (ever? Maybe since Thin Lizzy, anyway…) … more →
dubversion wrote 11 months ago: … Of course, the temporary hiatus in the rundown isn’t because I’ve been astonishi … more →
dubversion wrote 11 months ago: Now the Flaming Lips have gone off the boil a bit (the last album was pretty poor, and the live show … more →
dubversion wrote 11 months ago: How could I not love Art Brut? Wry, funny, honest, kitchen sink songs written and sung by a guy who … more →
dubversion wrote 11 months ago: I can’t bang on about how good it was seeing Robert Wyatt play live this year because (the odd … more →
dubversion wrote 11 months ago: One of the drunkest performances I’ve ever seen was Zach Condon of Beirut at Glastonbury this … more →
dubversion wrote 11 months ago: Glad to say I came across Richard Hawley ages ago, around the time of his first solo album (the sing … more →
dubversion wrote 11 months ago: In one sense, it was inevitable I’d really love Jeffrey Lewis’ 12 Crass Songs. I mean, I … more →
dubversion wrote 11 months ago: Here’s one I don’t really have any kind of context for. I have no idea whether Tinariwen … more →
dubversion wrote 11 months ago: “Lou is sitting on the drum riser, just making noise through every song – this one note – and … more →
dubversion wrote 11 months ago: “Back in the day it was Martin or Malcolm Nowadays, it’s either Kanye West Or that surly … more →