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A nice surprise, last week, when Julian Cope sent over his new double vinyl album, “Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse”. A surprise, because I thought I might have been blackballed after struggling with some of the attitudes that came to the surface on last year’s musically excellent “Black Sheep”.

The legendary singer returns

Still somewhat giddy with yesterday's technological breakthroughs in terms of embedding videos and joining the Twittering masses (you'd think we were devising groundbreaking new techniques for nanosurgery here, rather than blogging), I thought I'd take the opportunity to post the trailer for one of the most anticipated movies in our world.

After the Party: the first albums, remastered

Lucky 13th from The Artist Formerly Known As Smog

The Libertine has landed, with a proper solo debut

Grunge! Banjo! Dub! Swearing! Old friends play at musical double-dare

15 tracks recorded with T-Bone Burnett in Nashville

Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O also working on the soundtrack