January 2012
1 post
WatchWatch
I just uploaded “Canada Car Indie Mix 08/01/12” to www.mixcloud.com - listen now!
Jan 10th
November 2011
2 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
Alex Smoke (14) Brian Eno (14) Hello Saferide (13) Harold Budd (10) Säkert! (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 8th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
Yo La Tengo (19) Idlewild (18) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (13) Twin Shadow (11) M83 (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 1st
October 2011
2 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
Brian Eno (16) The Radio Dept. (6) Jeffrey Lewis (5) Yo La Tengo (5) Bill Laswell (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 27th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
Doves (9) Belle and Sebastian (7) Rolf Harris (3) Love (2) Skrillex (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 17th
September 2011
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Säkert! (11) The Mary Onettes (7) R.E.M. (2) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (1) Beirut (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
Yo La Tengo (15) Radiohead (11) C418 (9) Girl Talk (7) Säkert! (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 22nd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
Säkert! (5) Twin Shadow (5) LCD Soundsystem (4) The Divine Comedy (3) Hello Saferide (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 13th
August 2011
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →
Evangelicals (11) Brian Eno (3) Man Parrish (1) The Specials (1) Interpol (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 15th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-7) →
Jaga Jazzist (12) Low (10) Treefight For Sunlight (10) C418 (9) The Radio Dept. (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 9th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-31) →
C418 (14) Elbow (12) Interpol (7) LCD Soundsystem (4) Art Brut (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 5th
July 2011
2 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-24) →
Brian Eno (16) Treefight For Sunlight (15) The Beach Boys (12) The National (2) Jean-Michel Jarre (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 29th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-17) →
The Radio Dept. (12) C418 (12) Mansun (11) Harold Budd (10) Tears For Fears (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 20th
June 2011
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-26) →
Ladytron (11) Sigur Rós (8) The Low Frequency in Stereo (8) Hello Saferide (7) Sambassadeur (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 27th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-12) →
The Radio Dept. (67) Yo La Tengo (18) Queen (17) Ocean Colour Scene (16) C418 (15) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 22nd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-19) →
Yo La Tengo (48) Interpol (9) Mono (8) C418 (8) Queen (7) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 21st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-5) →
Belle and Sebastian (16) Yo La Tengo (15) Low (6) Veronica Falls (4) Freezepop (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 8th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-29) →
Yo La Tengo (31) Seams (28) C418 (25) Art Brut (19) PJ Harvey (14) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 5th
May 2011
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-15) →
Library Tapes (16) The Radio Dept. (13) Electric Six (11) Maxïmo Park (9) The Divine Comedy (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 20th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-8) →
The Album Leaf (16) Library Tapes (9) LCD Soundsystem (6) FM Belfast (6) The Juan MacLean (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 10th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-1) →
Brian Eno (80) C418 (41) Araya (29) Art Brut (10) Efterklang (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 6th
April 2011
1 post
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-24) →
Yo La Tengo (23) C418 (10) Grandaddy (6) Araya (6) Sambassadeur (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 25th
March 2011
2 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-27) →
Cut Copy (18) Sigur Rós (12) Colourmusic (7) Saint Etienne (4) Hercules and Love Affair (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 29th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-6) →
Meursault (12) Belle and Sebastian (12) LCD Soundsystem (10) Mogwai (8) Yo La Tengo (7) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 8th
February 2011
2 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-20) →
Radiohead (32) Meursault (13) Brian Eno (12) Säkert! (11) Boards of Canada (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Feb 22nd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Brian Eno (14) Eels (8) Girl Talk (5) Mew (4) Queen (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Feb 1st
January 2011
2 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
British Sea Power (18) Acid House Kings (12) LCD Soundsystem (11) The Radio Dept. (10) Dungen (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 22nd
5 tags
5-minute Miso Vegetable Noodles for one
I’ve never felt terribly confident as a chef, but I’ve been really getting into Japanese cooking lately. I just made myself some delightful noodles for lunch, so as much for my memory’s benefit as yours, here’s a quick recipe for vegetable noodles for one: Ingredients 200ml water 1 nest of dried noodles (ideally soba) 1 sachet instant miso soup Half a handful of mange...
Jan 8th
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December 2010
3 posts
3 tags
The songs that meant the most to me in 2010
2010’s new releases and I really didn’t get on. It all started some promisingly, with the likes of Interpol, the Divine Comedy, and LCD Soundsystem on the horizon. As it turned out, however, almost all of the releases that I was excited about were terrible, with LCD Soundsystem as the only notable counter-example. Nonetheless, I listened to a whole lot of music in 2010. Here’s...
Dec 30th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Gil Scott-Heron (4) Hood (3) Interpol (2) Radiohead (2) Barenaked Ladies (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 29th
Top ten games of 2010
2010 has been a bumper year for videogames, which is just as well because it’s been rubbish for music. More than that, though, it may well have been the best gaming year of my entire life. I’ll need a few years’ perspective to see if that’s actually true or not. In the meantime, here’s my top ten games of 2010, in reverse order. 10)  King’s Bounty: The Legend ...
Dec 28th
November 2010
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-14) →
Grandaddy (22) Yo La Tengo (22) Interpol (13) Brian Eno (12) Jason Lytle (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 15th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-7) →
Brian Eno (21) Yo La Tengo (20) Sambassadeur (11) Cymbals Eat Guitars (9) I’m Alan Partridge - Series 1 (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 9th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-31) →
Anna Järvinen (17) Queen (9) Goldfrapp (9) Godspeed You Black Emperor! (4) Belle & Sebastian (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 3rd
October 2010
1 post
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-24) →
Sigur Ros (21) Radiohead (19) Brian Eno (18) LCD Soundsystem (10) Belle and Sebastian (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 25th
March 2010
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
Queen (32) Gorillaz (32) Ellen Allien (26) Pantha du Prince (20) Fairmont (20) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 15th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) →
Errors (48) Radiohead (32) Idlewild (25) Doom (17) Mew (15) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 9th
An open letter to the BBC Trust
I just emailed the BBC Trust about the proposed cutbacks to the BBC. Here’s what I said: Hello BBC Trust, I strongly suspect that you’re getting deluged by emails, but as a happy license fee payer, I wanted to make sure that you heard my strong feelings on the proposed cutbacks. Having lived all over the world, there’s nothing like the BBC. Nothing that delivers such...
Mar 2nd
2 notes
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28) →
Guided by Voices (41) Acid House Kings (24) Spoon (21) Mercury Rev (18) The Cardigans (17) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 1st
February 2010
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21) →
Roots Manuva (50) Vince Guaraldi Trio (30) Stars (26) Spoon (16) Grandaddy (12) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Feb 23rd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14) →
Beach House (38) of Montreal (15) Ambassadors of Funk (15) Pet Shop Boys (14) Sigur Ros (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Feb 16th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7) →
Brian Eno (33) Fleet Foxes (22) Air (19) Yo La Tengo (16) Clint Mansell (16) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Feb 8th
Wired UK
I’ve written a few articles for Wired.co.uk lately. Here they are: Could games save the music industry? Darwin’s Origin of Species becomes Electro-Opera Immerse yourself in the Ambisonic sound of the Arctic
Feb 6th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31) →
The Beatles (33) The Divine Comedy (27) M. Ward (16) Eels (15) Brian Eno (13) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Feb 2nd
January 2010
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
The Divine Comedy (32) Joby Talbot (30) Eels (30) The Beatles (29) Invisible (28) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 25th
Darwin's Origin Of Species becomes electro-opera →
This is my first piece in a while for Wired UK. It’s about Danish electro-poppers The Knife creating an opera based on the life and works of Charles Darwin.
Jan 20th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Spoon (53) Belle and Sebastian (25) The Antlers (25) Grandaddy (22) Blur (20) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 19th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Doom (27) Chromeo (12) Jens Lekman (12) Pelle Carlberg (11) The Postal Service (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 12th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →
The Tough Alliance (21) Cold Cave (12) Nite Jewel (9) Andrew W.K. (6) Maxïmo Park (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 5th
December 2009
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Elvis Presley (14) Bob Dylan (12) Jason Lytle (12) Clint Mansell (12) Glen Campbell (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 28th