I occasionally round-up British music coverage on mp3 blogs, but there’s a lot of coverage on the rest of the inter-tubes of British music away from the blogs. I’ll round-up that and everything else, every Saturday or Sunday.

20 Jazz Funk Greats: on the British appetite for indie-rock “The Libertines were the prophets of our doom…. The hysterical fashion-driven ‘getting started-getting signed-getting dropped’ churn cycle makes it difficult for new promising bands to find their own voice before they become the best thing in the history of mankind OMFG hyperspace portal jump straight into becoming last-week’s news”

PORTISHEAD are back. Here are some words the blogs are using to describe their sound. “wisp you away like Phantom of the opera then boil you over with industrial hip hop style grimy beats” … “you need to listen and listen again every song before you understand the creative process and jump behind the complexity of each one” … “far more beauty mixed into the weirdness” and “maybe i’ll just have to allow everything sink in…”

Stereogum share a Frightened Rabbit b-side and talk dazzled-in-the-headlights by all the attention lead Rabbit Scott Hutchison about the track. Opening lyric? “there’s someone on top of you fucking.”

NBGL friend Shane at The Torture Garden shares a video of Fanfarlo, playing “You Are One of the Few Outsiders Who Really Understands Us” in a kitchen.

Pitchfork.tv: One of the finest music and album review sites has opened the doors to a digital fortress of high quality live music, high quality videos and high quality band documentaries. In terms of UK music they’ve got Radiohead doing Bangers’N'Mash in the studio and Bat For Lashes in a dark forest with animals on BMX bikes.

Joshua Allen writing for The Morning News points out where The Beatles went wrong: their songs just weren’t 2:42 seconds of heaven” … and tries to economise his strict recreational time.

I’ll be listening to Bjork’s entire discography in one sitting - 6 studio albums - tonight for an article documenting my last hurrah to Student Press. Wish me luck.

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