I decided I need some music by bands I may have heard of but not heard music by. So I asked around and ended up getting -
Anaal Nathrakh’s Codex Necro;
Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven;
Mia Doi Todd’s Manzanita;
BT’s Escm;
Stan Tracey’s Under Milk Wood;
808 State’s Ex.El.
Stan Tracey is one [...]
Jazz + Grindcore = Naked City = John Zorn stole my great idea before I’d even thought of it.
Damn.
Forty-one tracks on a twenty-five minute album .. it’s full of little short blasts of madness.
And whatever Dinos may say, I find it rather entertaining.
I shouldn’t think many of you know of Jimmy Smith, perhaps you’d recognise a tune or two if it chanced your ears, but he died yesterday aged seventy-nine and I’m taking the chance to preach the word.
You say trumpet to a jazz man he’ll think of Miles Davis. Bass is Mingus, sax is Coltrane [...]
Zimbabwe’s turn:
One of Zimbabwe’s leading junior athletes, who has won several gold medals in women’s events, is really a man, police say.
Samukeliso Sithole, 17, has been charged with impersonation.
At her court appearance, she insisted that she was a woman, despite a doctor’s report to the contrary.
Ms Sithole said she was born with both male and [...]
Just because the Welsh won the rugby doesn’t mean they’re any cleverer..
A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own testicles to celebrate Wales beating England at rugby, the Daily Mirror has reported.
Geoff Huish, 26, was so convinced England would win Saturday’s match he told fellow drinkers at a social club, “If Wales win I’ll cut [...]