Monthly Archives: January 2005

012605 - Titularily Disadvantaged (+california)

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Poorfolk (s/t)

The first track on Poorfolk’s self titled debut made one thing
painfully apparent: naming a CD after another genre and adding some
swishy guitars isn’t always enough to distinguish an album from that
burgeoning heap of mostly uniform, pleasantly mediocre indie bands,
especially when Jonathan Pearce’s voice sounds exactly like half the
lead vocalists already going. But unfortunately for […]

011905 - Inverted Hopscotch (+great songs from movies)

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011205 - The Usual Suspects

The first ever Slipstream Radio Three-hour

Introducing The Slipstream

The slipstream lies under, above and within the mainstream. It’s a safe zone in the wild currents where nothing is anything but what it is.The slipstream is about music first and foremost, and it tries to be fairly all-encompassing about it. I can’t (and won’t try to) say that I provide an equal representation of […]

fill-in: Tue, Jan 4, 7:00 - 9:00

Fresh into a new year, I become the easy morning rebel. Various events transpire to prevent the existence of an mp3. I think it went well.
Tracklist:
Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan

Amon Tobin - El Cargo
General Electrics - Facing That Void
The Dismemberment Plan - The Ice of Boston

Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues
Tindersticks - Buried Bones
Augie March […]

My Favourite Albums

This is what we would call my favourite albums of all time. Anything on this list is quite worth buying.
It’s quite possible I forgot some things, and any ranking is interchangeable with most things up to 10 or 15 spots away, because ranking things is silly. But for some reason we love to do […]

My Favourite Artists

This is a list of my favourite artists and DJs and what have you. It’s not ‘the best’ just my personal favourites. I update it periodically, so it’s usually fairly accurate, though it’s obviously hard to be totally accurate about a list like this. It also tries to be temporally all-encompassing ; […]