New threads started in December ’06
Monday, 18th December 2006
Dear Friends, Matador’s final (official) new signing of 2006 are the veterans of 2005’s most exciting debut album and what will hopefully be one (or two) of 2007’s most anticipated 2007…
If you don’t know what a LIST is, then ask your mom.
My friends in Australia are always sending us nice pressies via UK websites and I don’t really know where to start with Australian websites.
Send me your mixes or songs and I’ll play them on the wvvy.org web cast. You can e-mail zipped files to wvvymusic@gmail.com I’ll post on here when they’re scheduled to play.
For a few days I was too tempted to slot this as an appendage to Fishscale, but this is a different entity: more facile lyrically but denser musically; tougher, with a couple of drug songs…
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Tuesday, 19th December 2006
LOS ANGELES—Joe Barbera, half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that produced such beloved cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones, died Monday, a Warner…
Have we done this yet? Does political engagement make a song a more likely candidate for critical love regardless of musical content?
[Link] I think that this is a fantastic idea, and that we should set up more of these things. People who claim that we’re ruining the landscape (or seascape) should get a fucking grip and…
December 18, 2006 American Apparel to Be Sold to Investment Firm By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and MICHAEL BARBARO American Apparel, the casual clothing chain whose socially-conscious…
hey ilxors... i last bought a soundcard in 1999, and i need a new one for my new computer. i own a PC, it can handle anything. my needs high-quality playback (i would like it to handle…
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so, yeah. my brother kept a list of all the albums we’ve bought or downoaded this year. so i looked through it and out of the 200 or so albums (mostly by artists i haven’t heard of or just…
A friend of mine may have a shot at a deal with a very good indie label—not an indie giant but a respected releaser of respectable music. He can’t really afford a lawyer right now, but I…
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so i listened to this when it first came out but i dismissed it because i was heavy into disco and recent villalobos but i read the blurb about it on pitchfork and ‘over the ice’ is so…
An Indian runner who won a silver medal in the women’s 800 meters at the Asian Games failed a gender test and was stripped of the medal. Santhi Soundarajan, 25, took the gender test in…
i’m staying in putney from the 26th—the 3rd of january. looking for good record stores (older stuff. disco, electro, soul, jazz, etc). cool places i might want to check out, restaurants?…
Howdy glasgow denizens, I am once more in yr fair city between Christmas and Hogmanay. Best day for afternoon/early evening FAPpage for me is 27th, although this might not suit everyone…
Now as it’s Xmas, there are seasonal tracks in t’chart, thanks to d/l. Would it be that anything happening, newsworthy, could make surprise new entries for certain tracks that have been…
I’ve been listening to a lot of post punk lately, and it suddenly struck me that yes, there really are a lot of hopeless singers fronting post punk bands. I think the Pinefox first pointed…
[Link] Annoying lack of detail here. Somehow I think it’s more complicated than this (not least Beat Street’s long history of selling boots). For at least a year the bins have been…
Someone has posted a disgusting image of a man sticking his finger through his eye onto the Watercooler thread. Please could someone remove or linkify it? Thanks.
Fuck! I found TWO new versions?!... skinny malinky An old Scottish song about being very thin: Skinny Malinky lang legs, umbrella feet Went to the pictures (cinema) and couldnae find a…
[Link] here’s nat king cole giving it some ‘christmas song’. no sign of christmas wrapping by the waitresses as yet.
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[Link] I know, it’ll be a label called Stax, but it’s not THE Stax label, or is it? Confused.
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Here we go. (As noted elsewhere they already have Google Moon and Google Mars but this is the next step up.)
I think they might dig it. If they listen. One long-ass mix. Mostly 50’s and early 60’s stuff (Hence The Title). But some later 60’s stuff. It is diverse and you will need to buy some…
will be taking place in BOROUGH, sarf of the river, on Friday 29th December, starting at 3ish in the wheatsheaf on borough market. Further details on Freaky Trigger, somewhat obviously…
Trying to do this quiz [Link] and failing miserably, stuck at 26. Some are easy enough but 3–4?, the rabbit ears on 9–5, Genesis?, the baby(?) on 10–5, only thing I could think of was the…
The crux of that (probably too mean) blog post is something like “is it really necessary to go nuts giving nondescript x-mas cards to everyone you work with? does doing so devalue the…
[Link] And don’t the NME kids love it?
So they’re now casting about for where to build the half-billion memorial/thinktank/collection-of-post-its for Dubya, and have narrowed it down to three candidates: SMU, Baylor, and the…
SHOPPING ‘CLUB’ By BRADEN KEIL December 19, 2006 — The former Episcopal church that once housed the sacrilegious Limelight nightclub will be born again—as a retail mini-mall. Now known…
The Ipswich thread is taking for evah to load but I can’t find the ‘show last fifty answers’ option in my settings. R I BLIND?