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The horror!!! The horror!!!…

I haven’t updated this blog for two years, for a variety of reasons. Major tussle with the worst kind of dishonest swine that ever crawled out of the devil’s asshole (my ...
Return to Cookie Mountain

2000-2010: Top 10 Most Underrated Albums

I have been mulling over that list for a while. The 10 most underrated albums of the freaking decade. And then I realized that covering 2000-2010 includes, actually, 11 years. So there. ...

Top 10 Underrated Canadian Bands

I started this post trying to make some witty intro for Canada, with jokes about the proud North, the North-American-European-Mild-Placid stereotypes, the Moose-ish based fauna and ...

Doves: Manchester’s latest geniuses on the block.

Doves: A rock band that simply does sublimely sincere music… But before we take a good look at this band, let’s do a quick recap on the ole Manchester scene, also known ...

Mogwai: Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison: Glasgow’s finest shoegazers (and pretty much the whole world over)

Mogwai is « Evil mind » in Cantonese, and just awesome post-rock shoegazing music in Scottish. The band is probably the most famous contemporary exponent of ...

Lisa Gerrard: A voice from another world: Jaw-dropping, Ethereal, World, Neo-Goth

Lisa Gerrard and my far-out segue: Do you know this Beatles song, « A day in the life »?  What with all the changes in pace / harmonies, yet, it all sounds alike, ...

Iggy Pop & The Stooges: And there was hardcore

Dear friends, this week marks the 40th anniversary of the recording of « Fun House », one of the two mythological albums by iconic punk band Iggy Pop and the Stooges. ...

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – BRMC another spawn from the Stones and… BJM

Peter Hayes is the missing link between the Brian Jonestown Massacre and today’s band, the similar sounding, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, a.k.a. BRMC. Friends of acronyms, welcome! BJM ...

Brian Jonestown Massacre: A band that knows where you live

Anton Newcombe is a musical genius, frontman (and repeat destroyer) of his band, the Brian Jonestown Massacre (aka BJM) He is, also, a heroin enthusiast. And he really likes payote ...

Fela Kuti: Nigerian Rhythm-Machine, Afrobeat pioneer, Political Activist

Fela (Anikulapo) Kuti: The original Afrobeat Who better to start this blog with, than Fela Kuti, Nigerian  multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of afrobeat music, ...
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