We bid farewell to this 2007 of great hecticness, haulage of goods from one place to another and much good music, we do this by peering into the future hopeful and confident like chthonic seers with an ace in the hole, discussing things that shall be hot in 2008. As an epilogue we also deliver…
2OO7 – WHERE DISCO PREVAILS!! Music can take you to strange places. From vast deserts of echoing purple and grey prog drones, to industrial estate robot body-pop raves backlit by showers of sparks from car construction. In the case of this new infinitely awesome wave of Cosmic Disco that has spread across the red earth…
As we were saying the other day, if our life had needed saving during 2007, it would have been saved by music. As it is, it didn’t, but knowing we had this bad-ass aural bodyguard watching our spiritual backs, ready to run in our support should we start feeling disheartened by the state of affairs, or…
You know how 20jazzfunkgreats are a bunch of happy-go-lucky jesters living in a constant spiral of delights, ah, what new kitten will be grinning at us from the delightful feed window every morning, will the Great Cthulhu have awakened today to bring this vacuous society down while taciturn packs of Cenobites chase celebrities down the…
Where to Now?, run by our pals James Hines (Nascent zine/Black Banana/13 Monsters), James Tranmer (Go Faster/The Sticks) and Matt offers you a constant smorgasbord of obscure & tasty nuggets from that fertile period at the end of the 70s and beginning of the 80s, the punk rock monster had finished scaring the shit off…
If we are talking lost bands and an undeniable ahead of their time link to the sound of now we would probably not be a lone voice to scream The Lost Sounds who’s blatantly chaotic prog synth punk Screamers with fun style can be heard in the records of the ‘club hits’* we play out…
If 20JFG were allowed to script and subsequently direct the 3rd series of Heroes we would chuck out all the square jawed and blond-beautiful actors and actresses and employ our beloved musicians as Godsends. Damo Suzuki as Hero, naturally, then maybe Sally Shapiro taking over Claire’s role as the cheerleader and for the Petrelli bothers…
‘Sorcery and sanctity’ said Ambrose, ‘these are the only realities. Each is an Ecstasy, a withdrawal from the common life’. Arthur Machen is the man. Last Friday’s Upset the Rhythm shindig was fantastic, all the bands were in a hyper-celebratory mood and the outcome was an uplifting Christmasy celebration featuring a good-vibes stage invasion during…
Why are we such adepts of the arts of the dark and the sounds of the macabre? Is it perhaps because, as Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the creator of a cosmogony in which the universe expands dipping its big toes into abysses beyond, where the unnamable lurks, pointed out in his Supernatural Horror in Literature, The…
It’s nearly xmas. 10 reasons why Cliff Richard is cool. 1. Abstinence Cliff’s love of God and all his laws has kept him pure, ahh. This makes him perfect to burn in a giant offering next time the crops fail. We think Antony Gormley could build us an appropriate alter. 2. Apache! (jump on it,…
Why do we go so much for the 80s? Besides the fact that, at least in my case, those were childhood years about which I reminisce with much emotion, it is also that it was then when many of our fave things like disco and new wave, as well as all the crazy experimental synth…
So here forth cometh Lord Nuneaton Savage to pound you with he magic of words, anything I could write would pale in comparison with his vital power, so yeah, just read and listen and love and live, and say thanks in the box at the bottom Savage got SOUL The most nebulous concept in pop…
Intense debate, or maybe just a few email exchanges during supposed work hours, was created in a cloud of confusion as to where this fearsome edit by In Flagranti originates from. Some though Abba cos of the fancy piano lines, but Stu came through with his knowledge of disco-era Rolling Stones, with elements of ‘Emotional…
We picked this up on the side of a highway we were wandering aimlessly after getting off a wooden cross where some mutant hicks had decided to nail us for a laugh, as it were. We recommend you play it while driving around the neighbourhood busting mailboxes with a baseball bat bristling with rusty nails…