Totally Fuzzy — Sakalli said... Agitation Free - River Of Return (1999) (@256) http://www.sakalli.info mercurochrome said... Thee Young Moss Tongue Presents: AMON TOBIN - Bricolage PAVEMENT - Westing (By Musket And Sextant) VARIOUS - Monsoon Wedding (OST) INSPIRAL ... more info

The Vinyl Villain — AND ON THE SIXTH DAY, GOD CREATED MANCHESTERIf there's a city outside Scotland whose impact is recurrently felt on The Vinyl Villain, it must be Manchester with its Magazine, Morrissey, New Order...I lived there as a student in the late 80s and early... more info

Guardian Music — Chris Salmon is unnerved as the internet reads his musical mindIt was revealed this week that Oxford University has added Spotify to its prohibited websites list because students were consuming so much of the university's bandwidth using the free mus... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — The hot sun is beaming down on the face of the rhythm guitarist playing onstage in Mexico in 1999. On occasions he gazes up to the sun, he is slightly blinded by its glare and he is annoyed that he has left his sunglasses behind in the dressing room ... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — The Lost Interview : Noel Gallagher - 1991In the Spring of 1991 a journalist interviewed a person who would later become an enormous rockstar and musical legend, but at the time he was merely a roadie for the Inspiral Carpets. The journalist couldn't... more info

Guardian Music — Following Peter Hook's recent media blitz, it's hard to look at Manchester as forward thinking. Do new acts stand a chance? Or shall we just keep on banging on about the bloody Hacienda?Peter Hook, as you might have heard, has written a book about th... more info

The Music Fix — News: Press release: A host of names stepped out last week to celebrate the unveiling of blue plaques on two seminal recording studios in Rochdale. On Wednesday 23rd September New Order's Peter Hook, OMD's Andy McCluskey, members of Autechre, The In... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Observations: Psychedelia and some heavy lifting: what Noel Gallagher did nextGroovy move: Noel Gallagher is to appear on the new album by Amorphous AndrogynousAfter Noel Gallagher's seemingly irrevocable split from Oasis, fans have searched recent i... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — While the Strabane faithful who made the trip to Slane Castle in June to see Oasis were still taking in the news of Noel Gallagher's acrimonious split from the group on Friday, one of Noel's former employers was in Strabane on Sunday for a very speci... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — It was August 1991 when Noel Gallagher, back in Manchester after a stint working as a roadie for the Inspiral Carpets went to see his younger brother's new band for the first time. As he would recall years later, "fucking cheers mate" was his thought... more info