Out Of Our Minds – Coming Soon

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This is my world.

I sit at my table and wage war on myself
It seems like it’s all, it’s all for nothing
I know the barricades
And I know the mortar in the wall breaks
I recognise the weapons, I’ve used them well
This is my mistake
Let me make it good
I raised the wall
And I will be the one to knock it down
I’ve [...]

The power of the spoken word…

We have no TV. Some people think we’re insane, cruel even.
I used to have a television, an early 1980s black and white set that you had to use a dial to change channel. It was kept in my study for me to watch the news, but we never sat round the set as a family. [...]

5.10.15.20.25.30.35?

Miles Davies
1979. I’m 5 years old, with a Grandpa that hosted a jazz show on the radio, I grew up on a diet of Miles Davies, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and other jazz standards. Listening to it now, it brings back memories of Sunday mornings and the smell of coffee and watching Jamie – 3 [...]

Wait… You’re not Nic Costa…

Further to my discussion on Audiobooks, I discovered one of the downsides…
I listen a lot to David Hewson’s Nic Costa series, narrated by Saul Reichlin.
I haven’t Googled Mr Reichlin, because I fear that knowing him as more than just a voice will affect how I hear the stories he tells.
In my head, his [...]

Download: Pattern Recognition

Playable on iTunes / iPods, this is the audio book version of William Gibson’s novel “Pattern Recognition”; a book I will never get bored of listening to (or reading).
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6htpc0

Censorship?

I’m 34. 35 this year. My music tastes are very very eclectic. I grew up on a diet of jazz.
We have no TV. We have AirPort streaming in the house, where music is streamed through downstairs from iTunes libraries.
My kids know that the kitchen is the place that mom sings and dances and [...]

Mix Tape 1: October 27

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Missiles: The Dears

The Dears fourth studio album – Missiles – is out now! Go get it!
THIS WEEK THE DEARS ARE OFFICIALLY RELEASING A NEW ALBUM CALLED “MISSILES.” WORLDWIDE. IT IS SO KICK-ASS. DON’T BE SHY: PLEASE GO OUT TO YOUR LOCAL RECORD STORE AND BUY IT, DEMAND IT, IF YOU MUST. MAKE IT AN EVENT. NOTHING ELSE [...]

RETURN THE RICK, YOU BASTARDS!

On 9 September, Peter Buck’s legendary Rickenbacker was stolen directly after an REM show in Helsinki, Finland. Taken from the stage.
The band are appealing for information on the whereabouts of the black Rickenbacker 360 guitar, which Buck has used consistently since the band’s debut 1982 EP ‘Chronic Town’.
A spokesperson for the group explained that there’s [...]