Gilles Peterson has been shining a light on the jazz/funk/soul/world music he loves since the late 80’s when the pirates of Horizon, Invicta and LWR did battle for London’s music lovers. Then when Radio 1 …

Ryan (StopMe): Okay so it’s mid February and at least a month late but I’ve finally finished my Top 100 Tracks Of 2009 (Read 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005 here). I’ve not posted much here …

The Music Like Dirt top tracks of the year list returns for a fifth edition and once again falls short of being the most comprehensive, the most knowledgeable or the most bleedin’ edge. It is …

But neither did Puff Daddy, and as a music blogger (even one who’s been missing for a couple of months) my hard drive is stuffed to bursting with ‘versions‘.
For decades record companies have used remixes …

Currently hard at work on the follow up to the debut Le Sac vc. Pip album “Angles“, Scroobius Pip has taken time out to share some of his Spoken Word favourites.
Most of the seven are …

Part Two of the Father Abraham “Listen To This” and a chance to redeem myself with two musical selections following his underwhelming response to the magnificence of Afrobear. I would protest that PolarBear wasnt really …

“Listen To This“ is back after a well earned nap with another special guest contributor revelling in the role of showing me up as a musically illiterate half-wit.
2009 has been a year of mixed fortunes …

Over the last year or two Ive cut back on gig going, not because I enjoy live music any less, there’s just been other things I wanted to do more. For special bands though I’ll …

(Above) Testing how well iphone video broadcasting works (answer: not that well…needs sound level control, and wi-fi).
Endorsements from established stars are a double edged sword, its an easy sell for press coverage, but it can …