There’s nothing like a bit of nostalgia at Christmas. Here’s a site that has lovingly recreated the feel of watching a portable TV in a Midwest shack and flicking through the TV channels of yesteryear with programmes and ads. Hell, you can even fiddle with the aerial to stop the screen going fuzzy and flick through the TV Guide to find out what’s on.
Make the pound in your pocket go that bit further by not spending it. Yes, it’s a free download. Hot Chip have teamed up with legend of avant jazz Robert Wyatt to re-record tracks from Made In The Dark for a new EP. But as a taster they are giving two of them away. You can get the first one – the title track – right now, right here.
A choral interpretation of Pixies track Where Is My Mind? – surely having some percussion is a bit of a cheat though?
Metallica’s new video for All Nightmare Long features a crazed zombie apocalypse. How those video directors must rub their hands with glee when they get asked to do a promo for a track lasting nearly nine minutes
It seems hard to believe that this may ever have happened – Mark E Smith and David Gedge on This Is Your Life. But here is a clip to prove it as they paid tribute to everyone’s favourite DJ, the late John Peel.
On the subject of Manc musicians (Gedge was from Middleton don’t forget), here is renowned Factory Records artist Peter Saville recalling the genesis of his remarkable sleeves (the ones on the records smartarse) ....
10:10 AM | 12/12/2008
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