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"My purpose was simple: to catch the feel, the pulse of rock, as I had lived through it. What I was after was guts, and flash, and energy, and speed" - NIK COHN - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When the music was new and had no rules" -LUNA C

Monday, April 13, 2026

that's why they call it a...

Missed this 2016 tune, nodding back to / riding on a 1997 tune that's some folk-memory persistence some contiNUUMity ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^...

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Hertfordshire massive, part 17

Everyone knows about Moving Shadow coming from Stevenage But I hadn't realized that Ruff Kut! Record s was from there As in The Good 2Ba...

Saturday, March 14, 2026

We Can Be Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Enjoy this forensic analysis by Michaelangelo Matos of a classic pirate radio set. Presented yesterday at the EMP conference, it's ti...

Monday, February 2, 2026

Up Middle Finger

This pair had a Top 10 hit with a song that is basically about an intra-scene war - the nu garage rappists (Oxide + Neutrino, So Solid) ve...

Monday, January 26, 2026

RIP Sly Dunbar

just some of the obvious greats... but Sly (with and without Robbie) did all sorts of odd things Dunbar worked on a record by Jackson Bro...

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