Totally Fuzzy — Thomas said... This Week's Top 5 Most Played Songs! 1. School of Seven Bells - Babelonia 2. Toro Y Moi - Leave Everywhere 3. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 4. Dirty Three & Cat Power - Great Waves 5. OMD - Sister Marie Says (demo) http://www.thefront... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Gumshoe said... New Top-10 and Album of the Week #19 ... what could it be? Plus a surprise MP3; what could it be? Bobby B? MayB. Listen. Learn. http://gumshoegrove.com Mr Tear said... Classic UK reggae from 1985. Great for a sunny summer's day: Ma... more info

Guardian Music — (Fiction)The Canadian electronic duo Crystal Castles first attracted attention with their jarring juxtapositions: noise butting hard against what was called nu-rave at the time they emerged. The opening pairing of their second album suggests they mea... more info

Guardian Music — You don't have to be famous to get nominated for an Ivor Novello award. It's about whether anybody thinks the work is any goodBeing a writer as well as a producer, I always think that, just as a great script might not always turn into a great film, a... more info

Guardian Music — This nice Jewish girl has landed a £1.25m contract with Universal. Not bad for someone who was discovered while working in a launderetteHometown: London.The lineup: Lucinda Belle (voice, piano, harp) plus assorted musicians.The background: Lucinda B... more info

Pop Justice — In the not that distant past, just before the music industry ran out of money, even crap record labels used to throw huge sums of money at parties. One such party took place on election night in 1997, when Telstar spent a lot of money on a HUGE pissu... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Eleanor said... Cassettes & Chocolate Milk: Italo Disco Podcast #21 Alexander Robotnick - Problèmes d'Amour My Mine - Hypnotic Tango Facts & Fiction - Give Me The Night Miko Mission - The World is You Eddy Huntington - USSR Sally Shapiro - Save Yo... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Back in 1989, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty thought they had a surefire #1 hit on their hands with this, something which sounded like the love child of SAW and PSB:-mp3 : The KLF - Kylie Said To Jason mp3 : The KLF - Pure Trance The idea was to try ... more info

Guardian Music — On Saturday hundreds of music fans set out to celebrate the act of buying records. What were your best vinyl finds?Did you participate in Record Store Day? Did you lay your hands on the Blur single? I was too late, despite getting to Rough Trade East... more info

Guardian Music — Was it really all that long ago that we were hosing down our wellies, packing up our tents and peeling bits of Lady Gaga's exploding chest from our cagoules? Yes! So are we really ready to do it all over again? Oh, ok, go on, if we really have to. Yo... more info