September 7, 2008
The Lloyd Cole Part of the Interview.
MJ: Well, one of the ideas Im now seriously considering, and which has been suggested to me by both Jim and Lloyd Cole, is …
October 8, 2008
I have dropped 3 places to #14. The way my game has been I’m amazed I’m still top 20. Some of these guys are really good, and Vince Gill is …
February 16, 2009
Not quite as high brow as Kim Gordon, though…
May 28, 2009
Academy Award-winning Director Sam Mendes says his life has been lived out in songs from the tune his father sang to him at bedtime to the track that was playing while his first child was born. In his Guest DJ set, he shares a realization inspired by seeing an artist who refuses to cater to his audience…
May 28, 2009
From the San Francisco Chronicle (website) 28th May 2009. By Michelle Richmond – Author / Booklover / Observer of Neighborhoods. Songs to Write By.
June 11, 2009
Hardly news but I was watching an (hilarious) episode of c4’s “The Inbetweeners” when bang there’s a dissolve to a new scene featuring about 5 seconds of Wild Orphan.
June 13, 2009
I wasn’t even aware that this song was about Margaret Thatcher (or maybe I did know, and had just forgotten). I would’ve thought a more obvious track would’ve been Morrissey’s …
June 15, 2009
In a two-part series on BBC Radio 2, we are looking specifically at the music of the time and the way it was fuelled by the politics. It is fascinating …
July 31, 2009
German magazine Musikexpress asked me to vote for their 40th anniversary list. At first I declined citing ignorance of last ten years or so, but it was made clear that …
August 23, 2009
Can it really be 25 years since REM released Reckoning? Last week’s anniversary re-issue of this jewel in the indie rock crown leaves us in no doubt that the calendar …