JOHN MARTYN 1948-2009
Listen:
John Martyn – “Small Hours” (MP3)
John Martyn – “Glory Box (Portishead cover)” (MP3)
John Martyn – “Solid Air (Steinski’s Junk Mood mix)” (MP3)
Watch:
BBC 4’s wonderful John Martyn doc “Johhny Be Bad” (See Google …

Dance Area get the Diplo treatment.
Dance Area – ‘AA 24/7 (Diplo Remix)’ (MP3) (click, don’t right click)
Dance Area Myspace

Anyone up for just one more self indulgent end of year list? No…? Well, tough! After a month of crippling indecision I’ve finally whittled down a 1000 song short list to this, the 2008 …

Neil(MusicLikeDirt): Not one but two “best of’s” on musiclikedirt this year, my top 100 is slowly taking shape and with luck should be ready before the years out!
First here’s Ryan from Stop Me If Youve …

Punk rock has the power to change the world,
It lies in every single punk rock boy and girl,
So don’t let anyone tell you you’re not worth the earth,
These streets are your streets, this turf is …

Unlike my Top 100 tracks list I can’t claim to have driven myself insane trying to root out and listen to every fantastic album released this year. In fact its a challenge these days to …

Blur are back and playing to 45,000 in the summer but Damon’s got plans to rule not only indie pop but odd ball cartoon Monkey opera too. XL have roped in two of the …

Or so say Josh Weller and Paloma Faith on their festive offering “Its Christmas And I Hate You” (YouTube above).
I’m afraid it’s that time of the year when people play music they wouldn’t tollerate on …

Professor Green’s spent much of the last 12 months fighting to get his master tapes back off Warner’s after the collapse of Mike Skinners ‘Beats‘ label.  Now he’s back with ‘The Green EP‘ (available here) …