Archive for May, 2006

As promised late last week we took the trip over to West London on Friday to see if DJ Shadow would keep his word and do a bit of a meet and greet at his label’s office while playing a few tracks from the new …

On Friday, while on our way to see DJ Shadow over in West London (see above), we found ourselves seated opposite one of the Tube Challengers who were racing around Zone 1 (we could tell because he was wearing a sticker that said ‘Tube Challenge.com’ …

A 16 -year-old boy charged with the murder of the schoolboy Kiyan Prince will appear in court today. A 27-year-old woman was killed in Holborn on Saturday evening after a bus on Southampton Row, ‘ploughed into traffic lights’ and then mounted the pedestrian island where …

This past week we were completely nonplussed about the release of the new Guns N’ Roses album. Because, to be honest, we’ve had our fill of unruly musicians coming over here and getting into trouble. Mind you, DMX is in good company, let’s face it …

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark “Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid.” Is that a promise? They also give us this week’s best CDs and make us realize that LA is the …

For anyone who missed F4J on the National Lottery over the weekend. Didn’t this lot disband after the whole Euan Blair thing? Read our interview with a member of F4J here.

Good news for Iain Sinclair. The Temple of Mithras is going home. First the back-story. Lost for centuries, the Roman temple was rediscovered in the 1950s, after the Luftwaffe gave excavations a head start. Subsequent poking around uncovered some of the most important archaeological finds …

Have you worked out Peter Bradshaw’s hidden code yet? In his review of

What we do is war! Jean Louis insisted during practice, and I passed that off as him just being French and dramatic and paranoid. But in a way, isn’t he right? We are waging war on perceptions of reality, with our physical Socratic method. We …

The animals went in two by two, hurrah. Hurrah! There’ll be something else to watch on telly apart from the bloody football! And, good news for all us addicts across the land, the inhabitants of the Big Brother ark this year are weirder than ever. …