Well I must be coming of age, because it’s Friday night and rather than go out I’m at home listening to Cat Power’s “The Greatest”. It’s actually a really nice way to wind down from the week. Rather than a greatest hits, this album is named after the opening track, which has Marshall confessing she [...]

Corrine Bailey Rae’s debut album was eagerly anticipated in the UK, where music critics gave her the tag ‘artist most likely to breakthrough in 2006′. They most have known that the title in itself is a self-fulfilling prophecy – the tag gave her huge publicity and subsequently her album debuted at Number 1 on the [...]

My week has been one to forget. What better to do that than to listen to some nice tunes…. Ben Harper – Morning Yearning I have two versions of this song, and the are both amazing. I want to know how this guy can write such beautiful pieces of music. If you haven’t heard ‘Both [...]

So my iPod is busted again – this time the back button doesn’t work and so it has to be repaired/replaced again. Actually, I have had a shit of a time recently for things going bad: 1) my iPod (twice in two weeks) going to be repaired 2) my fire is only half installed – [...]

So many people listen to The Streets and don’t like them because they are not great musicians in the normal sense. While that may be the case, A Grand Don’t Come For Free was the album that made people pay attention to Mike Skinner and Co. Rather than balls up their career through their second [...]

Mike Skinner is a funny as guy. I think if I met him I would hate him, but I love the stories he tells. The most recent Streets offering has him talking the same old trash (Conning people, shagging birds, and getting hammered), but it seems a little less radio friendly than ‘A Grand Don’t…’. [...]

When I managed to listen to Seu Jorge’s “Cru” I envisaged that it would sound a lot like the tracks he played on this album. It turned out “Cru” was completely different. Seu Jorge’s performances on this soundtrack (all David Bowie covers) are outstanding. The tracks themselves are strpped back, the vocals are looser and [...]

While the title implies that this is a battle album between Muggs and Gza, be assured that it is a collobration between two hip-hop heavyweights who are at the height of their respective trades. Mugg’s beats fit Gza perfectly – and the simplicity of one MC and one DJ shows just how good these two [...]