damn straight

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bgrPHyAhVKo

bring back the old design!!!!

…and it's like a slap in the face.

alternative electronic electronica female vocalists folk indie indie pop indie rock pop rock seen live singer-songwriter

Generate your own musical cloud.

INDIE!!!!! i am not INDIE.

hey! out of last week's top 10 most listened, seven were women! that's pretty sweet. and of all sorts too - a cat power crossed with nirvana by way of nottingham wig-wearing ingenue (scout niblett). a sass funk muthafucking jazz heroine who married and bedded and divorced and outplayed some of the finest musicians of her age (betty davis). a guitarist (marnie stern) inspired to learn to SHRED by sleater-kinney (three more righteous women, formed from the ashes of original riot grrrl band heavens to betsy). a french chanteuse (francoise hardy).…

That Boy / That Girl

"That girl's an indie sindy // Lego haircut and polka-dot dress // I don't care if she thinks she's indie // How she's different is anyone's guess."

Thank you, Hadouken!. You said it far better than I would ever dare.

Check this month's Plan B magazine for a piece on Last.fm by your humble correspondent, me. It's all about tagging, web 2.0, getting musical crushes on your neighbors, and attempting to divine the state of your ex-lover's emotions based upon their most recently played track listing. Contains quotes from the gorgeous pouting Martin Stiksel, one of the founders of last.fm, plus some bonus fake lezzing from me to ease you into it. Out NOW in all good newsagents, and branches of Borders nationwide.

I listened to 'How It All Went Wrong' by Les Incompétents so much last week that it made its way into my top ten. But, like a retard, I tagged the song and the artist the wrong way round. Bearing the track title in mind, perhaps this is appropriate. However, it is BUGGING THE SHIT OUT OF ME. Does anyone know if I can do anything to sort this out? Or am I going to have to live with my mistake for this entire week? HELP MEEEE.

They may not have been singles: they may not have even come out this year, but according to Last.fm (which is not human and therefore cannot lie) these were the nine tracks that mattered in 2005; and whaddaya know, they're all about love.

Includes all these delightful artistes!

DMX KREW; ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI; THE BLOW; KEVIN BLECHDOM; JULIE DOIRON; THE POSTAL SERVICE
MAXIMILIAN HECKER; GRIZZLY BEAR


Phase 1: FIRST FLUSH

Architecture in Helsinki – Wishbone (Bar/none Records)
This is the happiest song I’ve ever heard. It sounds like June and grass and hope and…

I am sorry I called you a slaggy coke whore.

I hope I never have to listen to that album ever again as long as I live.

Like Death Cab For Cutie? Loving it. Fuck. It can't just be the Seth Cohen effect, can it? Him sitting there, his long body crumpled into the angle between wall and bed, skinny fingers fondling Captain Oates' mane as his lower lip does that cute pout-y thing boys do when they're having a mini-crisis. Can it? CAN IT? Dark hair, striped sweaters, comic-book scribblings, a broken heart - is that enough? Am I so led by my pudenda that the sight of Seth's stupid-long lashes whispering 'cross his peachy cheeks is enough to make me throw a million raucous…