Proving the music video genre still has the capacity to be intriguing, The Chemical Brothers with the help of Beck and a young dancer who makes me feel old.
Monthly Archives: January 2016
The Revenant
Revenge is one of the oldest motivations in the book. Probably the first caveman exacted revenge on the second for stealing one of his sharpened rocks. The murder of your child is perhaps one of the best reasons to exact revenge. Face it, if it happens your not going to be best pleased. Indeed what …
Miracle Village
Photojournalist Sofia Valiente has chosen to live and work with sex offenders. Not a choice many would make but what makes it even more unusual is that these offenders live together in their own town in Florida known as Miracle Village. It has led to a book of the same known which aims to show …
Love is a Hurtin’ Thing
Out there in America are dozens of artists like Gloria Ann Taylor, brilliant singers who for want of a defining album get forgotten by history. Luckily there are crate diggers who are constantly rediscovering lost classics and labels like Ubiquity and Jazzman who are prepared to compile and release the best of their …
Unbreakable
Tina Fey’s ‘30 Rock’ is one of the few comedy gems of the 00’s, the sort of show that becomes career defining. No one is necessarily expecting anything as good let alone better. Then along comes ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’, a show with the same crazy off kilter gags as ’30 Rock’ but with a little …
Sunny
It’s always good to come across a version of a song you know but now is made new again by a different interpretation. Better still is to find what the original of a classic sounds like. Sunny, written by Bobby Hebb, is a song we all know. But when stripped down it becomes a far …
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