Julian Casablancas covered Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing In The Dark” during a show the other night, and it was caught on video. Well, the audio was. You can’t see shit.
There’s something about that crossover of poignancy and fist-pumping exhilaration that makes it a perfect song for Jules to cover, I think - it’s an emotional melange not too many light years away from what you’ll find on his splendid album of last year, Phrazes For The Young. Listen to
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Once upon a time, you were NOBODY unless you’d had a music video banned by Top Of The Pops. Here Robyn Wilder reports on an instance of the modern-day equivalent…
YouTube has removed the video for MIA’s new single, “Born Free”, for being too violent. The verit
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Gang Starr frontman Guru has sadly passed away after losing his fight against cancer, and in doing so has left a farewell note sure to keep hip-hop conspiracy theorists stocked up with debate material for a good while to come.
In it, Guru alludes pretty directly to his ongoing beefiness with former Gang Starr producer DJ Premier…
While listening to Redlight‘s “Your Reward Is Cheese” mix, I unwittingly came by a new method of rating music. With it blasting through my “cans” and the light in the room fading, I needed to turn on the lights.
Rather than pause the music for 10 seconds, I unplugged the laptop and carried it with me to the lamp I needed to switch on.
That says so much more than a thumbs-up, I think.
Now look, this mix is forty minutes long. Which may lead you to thinkings akin to “hmm, I’ll listen to the first minute and if there’s any monotonous prog-house nonsense I’m fucking right off”. Or, “I bet I’m looking at my watch by five minutes in”.
My friend, I can assure you this is not one of those mixes. This thing is so unabashedly, relentlessly BANGPOP (?) that it chucks in Dizzee Rascal, Kings Of Leon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Marvin Gaye, Eurythmics, Kanye West, Joan Jett… and that’s just in the first half.
Once upon a time, you were NOBODY unless you’d had a music video banned by Top Of The Pops. Here 
