Monday 1st March 2010
JOOKBOX #1

Alongside the usual stuff I contribute to Platform, I now write a regular column rounding-up the best new music of the month (or however long it’s been since the last round-up). It’s called Jookbox.

Because you can’t compete with these guys, I asked Transparent, Don’t Die Wondering and No Pain In Pop to help me out with recommendations and they offered up some stellar choices. Click here to go to the Platform post and the tracklisting is featured below (you may recognise a few of these names from our blog over the last month). And how awesome is that artwork!
Enjoy!

Tracklisting:
1. Cold Pumas - “Tropical Guilt”

2. Happy Birthday – “Girls FM”

3. Yuck – “Georgia”

4. Grave Babies - “Gouge Your Eyes Out”

5. Balam Acab - “See Birds”

6. Protect-U - “Double Rainbow”

7. Raw Moans – “Rose Bath”

8. Trash Kit - “Fame”

9. Lonely Galaxy – “Have A Heart”

10. d’Eon – “Prochaine Station”

Wednesday 16th December 2009
THE YEAR IN REVIEWS

Worked It!

Earlier this year I started writing for Platform, for the most part about music, in one form or another. It’s still not a real job, but it’s a start, and stop judging me. Tory.

Below I’ve copied in links to various articles I hope may be of interest (I also wrote about a lot of things relating to girls too, but you can find those articles using your own initiative). There’s a host of free music to download, in keeping with the saintly spirit of the festive period.

Retrohohohospective! 

TRACK REVIEWS

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – “Home”
Fair Ohs – “Almost Island”
Japandroids – “Young Hearts Spark Fire”
Small Black – “Despicable Dogs”
Summer Camp – “I Only Have Eyes For You”
Tap Tap – “Queen of Hearts”
Truman Peyote – “New Wife, New Life” 
The Twilight Sad – “I Became A Prostitute”

LIVE REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS

Bill Callahan @ Union Chapel + interview
Blur @ Hyde Park
Steve Gullick Interview
Transgressive Records Interview

MIXTAPES

Becoming Real – Get Hyperreal Mixtape
Fair Ohs – Women, Death, Beer Mixtape
Washed Out – Fantastic Symphony Mixtape

OTHER 

ATP Film Review
ATP Fans Retrospective
Classic Shit Albums
Crisis Or A Boring Change? – Pavement Reform
Essential Student Albums
Guided By Voices
Soundtrack Your Heartbreak
Soundtrack Your Suicide  
Ungrateful Dead – Exploding Hearts