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Amadou & Miriam feat. K’naan

By • Aug 2nd, 2010 • Category: short players

If only the World Cup didn’t have to end, K’naan could have potentially been Afrobeat’s greatest ever crossover star. Still, this high-powered Bob Sinclair remix couldn’t arrive at a better time.



Frankenstein’s Friday Night Live Final

By • Aug 2nd, 2010 • Category: gigs, jrgigs

A bunch of bands that you may already know about all playing against each other for some developmental deal like a music World Cup… so here’s a rough description of what each sounded like even if you don’t care, or already knew. The Marvels are like a less evil Scouting For Girls, in the way [...]



Dum Dum Girls / Jesus H. Foxx / My Tiny Robots

By • Aug 1st, 2010 • Category: gigs, jrgigs

What a tribute to David Cameron’s nonsense, two Scottish bands supporting a more renowned American band; which is basically how the Second World War was won, except that it isn’t in any way.



Eliza Doolittle

By • Jul 9th, 2010 • Category: short players

Unless you’re tracking the career of Eliza Doolittle with an extremely powerful microscope this second single is going to sound somewhat similar to her first effort



Cowbell

By • Jul 9th, 2010 • Category: short players

As original as scrawling a stick-man rendition of Mona Lisa onto some lined paper then blue-tacking it to the walls of the Louvre in an attempt to pass it off as your own work before being ejected in disgrace onto the Paris streets, but who cares about that?