Bloggers Choice '08

Forget the magazine editors & big label marketing budgets. This is the best music from 2008 chosen by the most passionate music fans alive: music bloggers.

Hype Machine bring together the best albums, songs and artists of two-thousand-and-GREAT! And in true HypeM style there's free downloads, full albums and bloggery analysis a kimbo.

Check out Music Blog Zeitgeist.

ATP and sunshine

Make Ryan happy. I'll be cruising down to Camber Sands today for ATP vs Pitchfork, then out of action blog-wise for a while. I'm also in Dublin next week so if you can recommend a good inner city drinking hole or band venue, then drop me a comment. Will post some ATP photos and analysis from both festivals on my return. Peace out.

Procrastination is the sport of kings...

Posting my podcast is taking longer than expected, mainly because of my nasty procrastination habit... i wonder what else i could have accomplished had i been able to ditch this troublesome "P" word...

Essentially i'm sorting out hosting for the podcast, and might re-record the first episode since the information relating to gigs etc. is swiftly getting out of date.

And for now, i'm just going to update my links section, with some excellent places to point your browser at - my favourite blogs essentially, with a mix of music related, pop culture and marketting/trend-watching type things.

Feel free, if you so desire, to suggest your own or someone elses' for 'insertion'!

The Party Starts Now

Welcome to my new blog, based around a series of ongoing music podcasts called "Everything At Once". I've been presenting new-music radio programs now for 12 years, but this is my first ever music podcast. So its very exciting and I hope you enjoy the tunes, and are motivated to go out and see these artists live and buy their music.

Each podcast contains around 5 artists, and i'll be listing details here as they become available. I'll also provide links to their myspace pages or other websites, and gig details if any. If you'd like to suggest someone for me to include in a future program, then drop me an email. If you are one of the artists featured in a podcast, and you'd rather your music wasn't used, then please tell me and i'll remove it... or suggest a charity you support and i'll donate US$10 to them.

There's a chance this blog will feature more than just music related chat, so please feel free to participate and provide meaningful, mature contributions, and we can get some good discussions taking place.

If you have a blog, i'd love you to link through to me, and I'll gladly reciprocate.

The first "Everything at Once" podcast is recorded, and will be posted this weekend!

Ryan