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Maggoty Lamb ponders Stewart Lee and Danny Baker’s contrasting approaches to the hive mind - July 2011 The Guardian - By Maggoty Lamb - July 25th, 2011
This month’s in-depth investigation into the state of British music journalism concerns opposite attitudes towards the oft-derided debating forum that is the online comment community The idea of giving music journalists prizes is obviously ridiculous. Is going to gigs for free with an outside chance of standing next to Everett True not reward enough for…
The Silos – Florizona – Blue Rose - July 2011 July 24th, 2011
In 1987, Rolling Stone declared The Silos America’s Best New Band. A quarter of a century on the wider world remains unconvinced, the group carry the ‘Big In Germany’ curse, and Florizona’s sleeve depicts the American Dream as an airbrushed fantasy. Walter Salas-Humara’s romantically wrecked voice growls lyrics indulging the usual Alt Country ennoblement of…
Shonen Knife – Free Time - July 2011 July 24th, 2011
A chapter of Simon Reynolds’ Retromania details Japanese predilections for exact recreations of Western pop. But even if it’s worth sounding like The Ramones would if they were three women from Osaka, is it worth doing for thirty years, as Shonen Knife have? To be fair, the trio’s range has broadened of late. The topical…