Bob Dylan – Plagiarist or Genius?
In a recent folk on folk attack Joni Mitchell had a snipe at Bob Dylan. In an interview with the LA Times she said: Bob is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I....
Simon Cowell Makes Times Rich List
Simon Cowell has made The Times Rich List today, adding almost £50 million to his fortune over the last year; but he only came in at number 11. Here’s the top ten music millionaires: Edgar Bronfman (£1,640m) Clive Calder (£1,300m) Lord Lloyd-Webber (£700m) Sir Cameron Mackintosh (£635m) Sir Paul McCartney (£475m) Simon Fuller (£350m) Sir...
Girls Aloud and Lily Allen for Ivor Novello Awards – Really?
The Ivor Novello headline award looks like it could be Brit Award category this year. Dizzee Rascal, Bat for Lashes and La Roux are up for the best contemporary song. If the awards carry on this way they will end up as simply ignored footnotes. Not that these acts aren’t good – but would even...
Funniest Music Videos About Right Now
DAILY MAIL SONG – Dan and Dan just keep making us laugh VOICES WITH SOUL – Wow….just wow INDIAN SUBTITLES VIDEO: Sometimes a bit hit and miss but some very funny bits – and so simple. Picture Courtesy of Looking Glass
The Twitter Pack: 20 Tweeters You Should Be Following
Having recently redone the site, our new twitter account is well…..a little bit paltry. But coming together to start a new account for the new TMM has caused a bit of discussion about those essential tweeters. We do have some people we are big fans of and a #ff just aint going to cut it...
Malcolm McLaren
It is said that people forever retain an element of who they were when first encountered. For me, Malcolm McLaren, who sadly passed away on Thursday, remained throughout his life the ‘orrible oik from ’77, a brazen Londoner loudly proclaiming the virtues of punk and the Pistols. His desire to get under the skin of...
Getting by, with a little help from some friends
Dr Evil: “Gentlemen, it’s come to my attention that a breakaway Russian Republic called Kreplachistan will be transferring a nuclear warhead to the United Nations in a few days. Here’s the plan. We get the warhead, and we hold the world ransom… (dramatic pause)… FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS!” Perhaps it’s the Robbie Williams’ effect, but...
The Digital Economy Bill: The Music Industry’s Wrong Turn
While we tut at the disgraceful behaviour of Hoon, Hewitt and others caught up in the recent lobbying scandal, it was, being a rouse, fairly innocuous. However, as we do this an actual triumph for shady backroom politics is about to be bank rolled through Parliament by the big boys of the music industry. I...
Boy Crisis Interview
Depending on which review you read, Boy Crisis are, according to the Guardian “so hip and now that it hurts”, or as Pitchfork Media would have you believe, “the absolute worst band in the world right now. Seriously”. The ‘seriously’ only emphasising the magnitude of their disdain! It is this very uneasy marmite reaction to...
Phenomenal Hand Clap Band
For some reason Phenomenal Hand Clap Band are slowly slipping back to obscurity after a bit of a flash of publicity in mid 2009. If you haven’t come across them, here’s why they’re good. Phenomenal Hand Clap Band 15 to 20 Video from Darling Department on Vimeo. Picture courtesy of mlindema
Emmy the Great Interview
Having been lauded as the next big thing of 2007 one has to wonder where Emmy the Great has gone, three years on? The Japanese Born, British based singer song writer, known for her quirky anti- folk tunes, is as she insouciantly responds holed away “penning her second album”. Emmy aka, Emma Lee Moss self...
