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Big changes for blogfish

Blogfish is undergoing some big changes. Watch this virtual space for more exciting news very soon. For now, I'll leave you with one clue. It comes with filets de perches frais du lac Léman. Mark Powell Bainbridge, United States minor outlying ...

From MARK POWELL, Blogfish,  23 Nov 2009
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Polly Scattergood - Bunny Club EP

How many whimsical electro-folk chanteuses does it take to change a musical landscape? One tempting answer is 'probably fewer than we’ve seen emerge in recent years', but then again, an embarrassment of riches was never a particularly upsetting problem. ...

From MARK POWELL, Drowned in Sound,  19 Nov 2009
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(Untitled)

Hindsight reveals a certain irony to the fact that, as a debut album, 1989’s Bleach effectively shared some common traits with Pearl Jam’s perpetually misappropriated Ten. Not on the surface, of course - musically, they could scarcely be more different ...

From MARK POWELL, Drowned in Sound,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Nirvana (musician),  Pearl Jam (musician),  Kurt Cobain,  Chad Channing

Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights

It’s a small wonder that Lightning Bolt drummer and ‘vocalist’ Brian Chippendale manages to thrash out his pile-driving, hummingbird-on-PCP beats at all, given that he must presumably be sporting a trouser tent the height of Nelson’s Column for the ...

From MARK POWELL, Drowned in Sound,  20 Oct 2009
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Japanese Voyeurs - Sicking and Creaming

'EP'? Shit off, kids - I wasn’t born yesterday. In fact, being semi-ancient, I’m quite convinced I can recall some sort of golden era wherein the suffix ‘EP’ was more or less a tacit apology for any release skinnier than eight numbers. On that basis ...

From MARK POWELL, Drowned in Sound,  15 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Virgin Mary,  Nirvana (musician)

Green index for all products?

Mark Powell Bainbridge, United States minor outlying islands I grew up with fishing and the ocean, became a scientist, and now I'm a conservationist. The opinions here are my own. Email me about blogfish at blogfishx (at) gmail (dot) com, about ...

From MARK POWELL, Blogfish,  7 Oct 2009
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The Spinto Band - Slim & Slender

Most of the time, The Spinto Band’s artfully choreographed if rather safety-conscious melodic firework displays burst prettily into the indie-pop firmament to a light rippling of “aah”s - a couple of them gratingly ironic, inevitably - and then fizzle, ...

From MARK POWELL, Drowned in Sound,  7 Oct 2009
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Carnival of the blue 29

The best of ocean blogging for September is now compiled and ready for your enjoyment at Cephalopodcast.com. This month's edition features the artistic touch of Jason as host, along with the stunning variety of ocean goings-on like Miriam's ...

From MARK POWELL, Blogfish,  6 Oct 2009

Klamath River dam politics look good for a change

Mark Powell Bainbridge, United States minor outlying islands I grew up with fishing and the ocean, became a scientist, and now I'm a conservationist. The opinions here are my own. Email me about blogfish at blogfishx (at) gmail (dot) com, about ...

From MARK POWELL, Blogfish,  1 Oct 2009
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Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Through the Devil Softly

When Hope Sandoval unexpectedly materialised a decade ago in the midst of the Chemical Brothers’ otherwise-alarmingly-housey big beat thesis Surrender, her very presence crowbarred a heavy-lidded eye into the whip of the storm, slamming the ...

From MARK POWELL, Drowned in Sound,  1 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Massive Attack (musician)

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