Month: March 2009

Not since Bill Corgan’s ‘Today’ combined the perky mechanics of self-mutilation with a cheery pop aesthetic has the notion of suicide and alienation seemed such a gently attractive lifestyle choice. Slacker, stoner – call it what you will, it usually arrives gift wrapped in a similar kind of envelope. It might come with a beercan delivered by a nitemare hippy girl called Polly, by an entire daydream nation reeking of teen-spirit or even by a black hole sun. It might Continue Reading

‘Jailed-rocker cleans up his act for one last crack at greatness?’ ‘Notorious smack-addict knobs the hind legs off Super Model Kate, sprays blood over walls, injects heroin into arm of unconscious fan and releases handsome new solo album?’ ‘Permanent tabloid fixture in surprisingly decent album scandal?’ Given Pete Doherty’s prevailing ‘anti-darling’ status with the not-so-great British press, it’s only fitting that Crud should frame its appreciation of the album in a manner that is most likely to appeal to the Continue Reading

A hip-hop supergroup consisting of Gift of Gab from Blackalicious, Lateef the Truth Speaker of Latyrx, and producer Headnodic of the Crown City Rockers . Not household names by any means but should you be willing to leaf through the pages of hip-hop’s complex history, these figures should jump out like the good, the gab and the ugly. Not much consolation if you don’t know your spit from your spat, your triple rhymes from your party rhymes, your freestyle from Continue Reading