"Don't hate the media. Be the media"' - Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)

1. Second Sex - Lick My Boots
2. Cheeseburger - Let the Good Times Roll
3. I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the house - Westboro Baptist Church
4. Cornelius - Music
5. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Blue IV
6. Efterklang - Towards the Bare Hill
7. Panda Bear - Comfy in Nautica
8. Dean and Britta - Words You Used to Say
9. Jill Barber - Hard Line
10. Elk City - Cherries in the Snow
11. The National - Fake Empire
12. The Shaky Hands - How Come
13. The Black Ghosts - Anyway You Choose to Give it (Boy-8-Bit Remix)
14. Holy Hail - Born of a Star (Shir Kahn Remix)
15. Polytechnic - Cold Hearted Business
16. The Illuminoids - Lugosi's Mongoloid Loser
17. Marissa Nadler - Clowne Towne (Xiu Xiu Cover)
18. Motorhead - Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley Cover)

What's all this podcasting business about anyway?

1. The Podcasting concept
2. Instructions on how to listen to NYUB in iTunes

Check out the Take Your Medicine Podcast if you want to hear the latest up and coming UK acts.

Wet weather gear optionalHell, it's been a long time since I posted anything. A few people emailed me asking me whether NYUB had croaked it. Far from it! I just haven't had the time. Fear not, a new one will be coming out shortly. In the meantime, I managed to secure some coveted tickets to the Glastonbury music festival this year. I'm hoping to record all the weird and wonderful sounds from the festival and throw them on an NYUB episode in July.

Anybody else out there going? I'd love to catch up with you at the festival.

You've all probably heard about the Apple & EMI announcement. All EMI tracks will be sold without DRM. Apparently it's a move by Apple & EMI to please consumers. Bullshit. It's a move to entrench AAC as the defacto digital standard in the industry. Embracing the MP3 format would have been more symbolic.

"Don't hate the media. Be the media"' - Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)

1. Islands - Volcanoes
2. Kristin Hersh - Dayglow (5:00)
3. Of Montreal - Faberge Falls for Shuggie (9:30)
4. Museum - For the Very First Time (13:30)
5. Field Music - She Can Do What She Wants (17:30)
6. The Apples in Stereo - Beautiful Machine Parts 3-4 (19:30)
7. Justice - Phantom (24:30)
8. Vicarious Bliss - Limousine (29:00)
9. New Young Pony Club - Get Lucky (34:00)
10. Ghostland Observatory - All You Rock and Rollers (38:00)
11. New Violators - Runaway (40:30)
12. Amon Tobin - Foley Room (44:00)
13. Acoustic Ladyland - Cuts & Lies (47:30)
14. Barry Adamson - My Friend The Fly (51:00)
15. Dungen - Gör Det Nu  (55:00)
16. Sonic Youth - Superstar (Carpenters Cover) (58:00)
17. Nouvelle Vague - Killing Moon (Echo & The Bunnymen Cover) (64:00)

What's all this podcasting business about anyway?

1. The Podcasting concept
2. Instructions on how to listen to NYUB in iTunes

Check out the Take Your Medicine Podcast if you want to hear the latest up and coming UK acts.

"Don't hate the media. Be the media"' - Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)

1. GoodBooks - Leni (Kissy Sell Out Remix)
2. Girl Talk - Smash Your Head
3. !!! - Heart of Hearts
4. Sunshine Underground - Wake Up
5. Serena-Maneesh - Un-Deux
6. Mastodon - Sleeping Giant
7. Jamie Radford - You're so Warm
8. Richard Buckner - Town
9. Detektivbyrån - Hemvägen
10. Arcade Fire - Intervention (Live)
11. Mahogany - My Bed is My Castle
12. The Bees - Listening Man
13. Camera Obscura - I Need all the Friends I can Get
14. Shearwater - Seventy-Four, Seventy-Five
15. Casey Dienel - Doctor Monroe
16. Kate Rogers - Here Comes Your Man (Pixies Cover)
17. Mr Hopkinsons Computer Band - Fools Gold (Stone Roses Cover) 

What's all this podcasting business about anyway?

1. The Podcasting concept
2. Instructions on how to listen to NYUB in iTunes

Check out the Take Your Medicine Podcast if you want to hear the latest up and coming UK acts.

NYUB is now listed in the Digg podcast section. Give us a dig!

"Don't hate the media. Be the media"' - Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)

1. The Knife - Christmas Reindeer
2. The Shivers - SoHo Party
3. Malajube - Montreal -40c
4. Art Brut - Nag Nag Nag Nag
5. Eagles of Death Metal - Cherry Cola
6. Clinic - Harvest
7. The Rapture - Whoo! Alright - Yeah....Uhuh (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
8. Hifana - Wamono
9. Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone
10. Man Man - Black Mission Goggles
11. The Panda Band - Eyelashes
12. Quiet Village Project - Pillow Talk
13. Newton Faulkner - UFO
14. Elanors - She Had a Dream
15. The Shins - Phantom Limb
16. Prototypes - Je ne te connais pas
17. Apes & Androids - Radio
18. Tall Hands - Fifteen on Ice
19. The Thermals - Here's your future
20. Grizzly Bear - Owner of a Lonely Heart (Yes Cover)

What's all this podcasting business about anyway?

1. The Podcasting concept
2. Instructions on how to listen to NYUB in iTunes

Check out the Take Your Medicine Podcast if you want to hear the latest up and coming UK acts.

Largehearted Boy, he who was too much time on his hands, has compiled every single 'year-end music list 2006' he's come across.

Check it out if you're stuck for music.

Me? I'm not going to comment on 2006. I've digested way too much music this year and I've still got heartburn. I did fancy Silversun Pickups but only Spin magazine put them in their list.

My pick for 2007? There's only one ofcourse and that is Axl's imminent meteoric comeback - 'Chinese Democracy'. Apparently it will be released next year.

Oh yes...... ;)

Crikey. This serves me right for not checking my mail often enough. It appears that NYUB was nominated for best podcast 2006 as part of the 2006 Weblog Awards. I didn't have a clue so I haven't done a 'get out the vote' campaign and NYUB is trailing badly in votes at the moment. Apparently you can vote once every 24 hours but the deadline is today so get in there!

Give me a vote

Slate investigates the Pitchfork back-lash.  I started reading Pitchfork back in 2001 and admittedly, the editorial staff are on a never-ending quest for the more obscure and ecclectic. The moreso, the higher the score regardless of actual talent. If you are passionate about music, then I recommend you keep a good breadth of music mags and blogs at your disposal (common sense, I hear you say!) and don't rely on a few marquee publications. If you want a real Pitchfork anti-dote, visit Drowned In Sound. You can comment on all reviews and the wank factor is low.

Ofcourse, you can always tune into NYUB for your fix. ;)

Below is a video made by Sound Team in response to a shitty Pitchfork review.

I find that if people don't like a show I put out, they'll still like the cover(s) at the end. So, if you can't get enough cover-action then visit Torontoist who have just released a very detailed list of the best covers around.

"Don't hate the media. Be the media"' - Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)

1. Yuksek - Break ya
2. Whitey - A walk in the dark
3. The Blow - Pile of Gold
4. Supersystem - White light
5. Ratatat - Wildcat
6. The Sheds - Too many pictures
7. Lowstar - Connected
8. Eef Barzelay - Words that escape me
9. The Bicycles - Paris be mine
10. Tom Waits - Bottom of the world
11. Viva Voce - We do not fuck around
12. Silversun Pickups - Dream at tempo 119
13. The Oxygen Ponies - Get over yourself
14. Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - Enjoy the silence (Depeche Mode cover)

What's all this podcasting business about anyway?

1. The Podcasting concept
2. Instructions on how to listen to NYUB in iTunes

Check out the Take Your Medicine Podcast if you want to hear the latest up and coming UK acts.

Peter JennerThe Register interviews Peter Jenner, former manager of the Clash and Pink Floyd and now Billy Bragg's manager. He predicts that current digital rights management structures will be replaced by blanket licensing regimes, within 3 years. Wouldn't that be nice? :)

Read the article.

I'm a big fan of DIY digital video, particularly funky viral stuff. I get particularly excited when it involves bands doing DIY digital video (the errorplains for instance) so when Offcuts 07 approached me for a bit of help, I jumped at the chance. Offcuts brings together bands and filmmakers, that are as adventurous about their music videos, as they are about their music. They recently scoured the globe for 6 artists who have the balls to have their tracks visually translated by a global network of indie filmmakers, animators and video artists.

There are two categories:

Cut to size: Work made specifically for the competition, set to one of the six tracks posted by the participating acts (Selfish Cunt (Pictured above), Paloma Faith and the Unfaithfuls, The Pistolas, Saltpeter, Miz Metro and Tetine).

One size fits all:

Existing music video work that is leftfield and fresh.

All entries to be submitted by December 29. The winners will be announced in March and their videos delivered globally via NYUB.

Get in there!

Offcuts 07

"Don't hate the media. Be the media"' - Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)

1. Spank Rock - Bump (Switch Remix)
2. Guns 'n Bombs - Nothing is getting us anywhere
3. Teddybears - Yours to keep (Annie Remix)
4. The Vandelles - Lovely Weather
5. Fields - Songs for the fields
6. The Victorian English Gentlemen's Club - Dead Anyway
7. The Hidden Cameras - For Fun
8. Varsity Drag - Skinny Ties
9. The Lemonheads - No Backbone
10. Voxtrot - Trouble
11. Shake My Hand - All My Life
12. iForward, Russia! - Four
13. Polysics - Mr Psycho Psycho
14. Jay-Zena - 99 Luftproblems
15. The Polyphonic Spree - Lithium (Nirvana Cover)

What's all this podcasting business about anyway?

1. The Podcasting concept
2. Instructions on how to listen to NYUB in iTunes

Check out the Take Your Medicine Podcast if you want to hear the latest up and coming UK acts.

"Don't hate the media. Be the media"' - Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)

1. Sebastian - Walkman
2. Alabama 3 - U Don't Dans 2 Tekno Anymore
3. MSTRKRFT - She's Good For Business
4. Jay-R - My Other Car is a Beatle
5. Ed Harcourt - Visit From The Dead Dog
6. Early Day Miners - Return of the Native
7. Eglantine Gouzy - Cowboy
8. Fun-Da-Mental - Screbinicia Massacre
9. Irving - I Want to Love You in my Room
10. Evangelicals - Here Comes Trouble
11. Irene - Little Things That Tear Us Apart
12. Lambchop - Beers Before the Barbican
13. Scanners - Lowlife (Radio Edit)
14. Birdmonster - 'Cause You Can
15. The Lovekins - Happy Happy
16. The Plan - Walk for Gold
17. The Polyphonic Spree - Sonic Bloom
18. Cobra Verde - Temptation (New Order Cover)

What's all this podcasting business about anyway?

1. The Podcasting concept
2. Instructions on how to listen to NYUB in iTunes

Check out the Take Your Medicine Podcast if you want to hear the latest up and coming UK acts.