A big black wild gorilla!

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This month's Pitchfork column. Written very quickly and drawing on some of last week's conversations on poptimists, this was going to be a much more involved column roaming into some wider places but i. I didn't have time and ii. The connections were rather forced. Actually I'm quite pleased with how it turned out! (Thanks to, IIRC, lockedintheatti for alerting me to the ad in the first place)

THE POP OPEN GROUP I: Fifties And Before

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The Pop Open is BACK for Round 2!

If you haven't played before, here's the setup - each week, we put up 4 tracks (each selected by a member of Poptimists). You listen to them and vote for your two favourites in the poll below. The only thing is, you mustn't vote for anything you already knew. Tracks are anonymised at first then revealed after a couple of days, and results are announced next Monday. Anyone can vote! (well if they're logged in to LJ)

This week's theme is "Fifties And Before" - you can get hold of the tracks either as a 13Mb zipfile here, or by streaming them at Freaky Trigger, here. Go go go, you crazy beatniks you.

[Poll #1060889]

Thanks to stevem78, martinskidmore, inhibitorylinks and hauntedballroom for this week's tracks. If you are playing in Round 2 and haven't sent your track in yet, please do! :)

New blog

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http://peoplelistentoit.wordpress.com/

Well new-ish - another musicology-meets-pop blog (seem to be a few of those about, actually).

Might appeal to the in-ter-lechewal wing of Poptimists, you never know!

It'll Never Work

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( Incoherent ramblings about nu-rave. )

Right, I'm off down the pub.