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August 14, 2010, 11:28 am

As you will know if you read JB regularly (as regular as a once-a-month post gets, with apologies) you’ll know …

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July 13, 2010, 11:59 am

I’ve finally gone and done it. On Friday, I bought my last CD (arrived today, I Am Kloot new album …

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May 31, 2010, 6:37 pm

Have you listened to Exile on Main Street lately? If not, then you will surely have at least …

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May 2, 2010, 7:13 pm

Couple of years back I was at a music conference featuring a panel of ‘new millennial’s (young people to you …

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November 17, 2009, 11:53 am

A week or so ago, I made five recommendations of music that’s a bit different to my (& maybe your) …

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November 11, 2009, 12:00 am

This is a two part post: first, some music I recommend; second (later in the week) – how can this …

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November 4, 2009, 12:40 am

There’s nothing like music for taking you back. Seventeen years ago (at the start of my professional career) I was …

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October 28, 2009, 12:18 am

In Richard DeLillo’s book The Longest Cocktail Party there’s an amusing passage around the release of The White Album (I …

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October 21, 2009, 9:35 am

The web is wonderful. It has done the most remarkable things for music. I haven’t read one of his novels, …

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October 14, 2009, 12:04 am

When Steve Jobs announced the launch of iTunes back in 2004 and queued up the slide for the song price …

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