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17/08/2008

The Bullshitters Lexicon #1 - A glossary of redundant music biz cliches (182 views 0 comments)

alt Pop Does anyone have the faintest idea what 'Pop' actually is these days? Well if you're going to be a pernickety bugger about it, Pop is of course the abbreviated term for Popular Music, yet in previous decades it had become a musical genre with a sound all of its own. Therefore the 'Popular Music = Pop' definiti...

12/08/2008

Aeon Festival (213 views 0 comments)

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23-24 August, Shobrookw Park Estate, Crediton, Devon, EX17 1DG

We were at Latitude the other weekend. The one thing we kept overhearing people say was “God, this is such a middle-class festival”, which we pretty much heard at a frequency of one-chinless-wonder-per-hour for the entire durat...

06/08/2008

Monkey business in Barcelona (230 views 0 comments)

 

altWe have to confess to not having heard of Barcelona’s latest xXx addition, Los Tiki Phantoms. Then we did a quick bit of research. Now we can’t wait to get a close-up look at their monkey madness. Specialising in B Movie-style surf guitar ...

05/08/2008

Tokyo's got the funk (323 views 0 comments)

altExpect Diplo’s ears to be burning on October 11th, as two of his most regular cohorts are added to the Tokyo bill.

Canadian turntablist (and younger brother of Chromeo’s David) A-Trak has got it going ON: youngest ever winner of the

05/08/2008

Hip kids hop to Paris for xXx (371 views 0 comments)

altIf there's anywhere in the world that doesn't need an injection of 'cool', it's Paris.  With every Parisian so cool they make The Fonze look like Joe Pasquale, you'd have to be pretty damn smooth to boost the cool factor of the City of Light's xXx party on October 11th.  So it's a good job that joining coole...

04/08/2008

Ad aces added to Tokyo tear-up (236 views 0 comments)

 

altAs highlighted in Lost In Translation, there's an interesting sideline for Hollywood actors in Japanese adverts.  Just like when a band becomes that cliche 'big in Japan', which has often been used to justify the fact that an act is less than well-endowed in the Western fanbase area, it's both a ni...

04/08/2008

Barcelona's xXx dos and don'ts (273 views 0 comments)

 

altWe all know what you'll be doing on October 11th.  We all know what the coolest and most innovative acts around will be doing too.  But what is everyone doing right now?  You're reading this blog, wondering if this dos and don'ts riff is going anywhere.  We're writing this blog,...

03/08/2008

Edinburgh Fringe Festival (226 views 0 comments)

altEvery August, 27,000 actors, comedians and [other] descend on the Scottish capital, each determined to become the next Ladyboy of Bangkok or die trying. The result is a four-week carcrash of bipolar narcissists, PR charlatans and binge drinking drama students determined to rub their genitals against anything that...

03/08/2008

Tokyo to tuck into bangers and mash-ups (196 views 0 comments)

 

altThe end of the world is extremely fucking high.  If movies have taught us anything at all, it's that if a bunch of physicists put together a massive underground nuclear reactor in order to fuck about with neutrons and create mini black holes for a laugh, it's that such shenanigans wil...

02/08/2008

More on xXx Tokyo act The Martinez Brothers... (162 views 0 comments)

 

altOur first Miami Winter Music Conference, the USA's biggest electronic music event, was a sensory overload, with eyes and ears bombarded with the sights and sounds of sublime, to the surreal, to the revelatory, to the ridiculous: legendary Detroit producer