Category Archives: Streaming audio
Keep Shelly In Athens
I’m not quite sure how it took me so long to discover Keep Shelly In Athens, when everyone else seems to have done so long, long ago. Pretty sure it’s some kind of conspiracy. What’s that? Two emails about them … Continue reading
My 25 favourite tracks of 2010
It’s nearly the end of the year, so I’d better do some sort of round-up (aside from the CMU Artists Of The Year list I already posted up here). Here are my 25 favourite tracks of 2010, which I’ve put … Continue reading
Shane MacGowan is magic
Channel 4 cut Shane MacGowan’s epic and entirely incoherent introduction to the video for his Haiti charity single, I Put A Spell On You, from their coverage of the NME Awards, which is a shame, because it was one of … Continue reading
Powers Of Ten
Back in January, we at CMU launched a new feature in CMU Weekly called Powers Of Ten. Each week we ask a different music-related (or not, as you will see in the near-ish future) person to select ten songs they … Continue reading
Albums Of The Year 2009
It is the law that all music journalists must come up with at least one end-of-year list come December. And I do not want to go to journalist prison. Not after last time. So, here are the ten albums I … Continue reading
Stream the new Why? album
Why?’s new album, ‘Eskimo Snow’, is released in America this week by Anticon. Which is nice for Americans, but Tomlab won’t be releasing it in the UK until 5 Oct. Boo! But you can stream the whole album right now … Continue reading
Recommended tracks
Friendly Fires – Kiss Of Life I’ve been meaning to tip this for weeks, but kept getting distracted by other things. As you know, we’re already big fans of Friendly Fires, but this first taste of where the band are … Continue reading
Today, I let my brain be the DJ
So, this morning I woke up with Happy Birthday Ralph by Atom And His Package in my head. Who knows why. It’s possibly that I was thinking about what to get my girlfriend for her birthday. Though I should point … Continue reading
Atom And His Package
Okay, I know this is the Social Networking Artist Profile Of The Day column, but I’m not sure it can technically be called that today. Atom hasn’t logged in to his very basic MySpace page for almost a year and … Continue reading
The Big Pink
The Big Pink’s debut album ‘A Brief History Of Love’ has been on heavy rotation since it arrived in the CMU office. Consisting of Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell, who for several years separately made and promoted noise at various … Continue reading
