Here's an ace thing. Not us finally posting an update to BrokenFM, but rather something mentioned on the BBC's RadioLabs Blog. LastFM profiles have been set up to capture every track played by Radios One, Two, 1xtra and...
Your blog may be one of the best ones on the internet, but you're quite wrong about Finding Tatu. It's almost 20 years since It Couldn't Happen Here was released, so what better time to bring out another...
Here in the BrokenFM office, we don't often go out of our way to recommend new music to our merry gaggle of viewers. After all, it's the internet. If you want to find out if you like a...
Only a few months ago, BrokenFM was loudly pondering to anyone within a fifteen metre radius about how annoying it is that the entire genre of 'indie' music (or alt. rock, or whatever The Kids are calling it these days) is taken up wholly by interchangeable Jo Whiley-approved white male guitar bands. We've just clicked through pretty much the entire iTunes top 50 alternative chart, and as far as we're concerned about 75% of it could have been performed by the same band. 'Band' with a silent 'L', there. Oh, how we longed for that to change, how we longed for the days when the monthly Indie chart on The Chart Show (when it was on Channel Four, natch) would contain bands such as The JAMMs or The Sugarcubes, as opposed to sodding Razorlight, the flipping Arctic Monkeys or the chuffing Pigeon Detectives, all plopping out the same old tunes that your Dad probably quite likes too.
Granted, there are tons of brilliant acts making music right now, such as The Go! Team, The Hold Steady, Bonde De Role, MIA, but it's never any of them that seem to get played on the radio we've got to listen to in work. Sadly. Which is just one of the reasons we really chuffing well hate our job right now. And that last past is worth saying, because we're guessing the head of the HR department from Associated Chocolate Ice-Cream, Cake And Puppies Incorporated reads this blog.
Now, in the modern space age days of September 2007, the music world is a very different place. Now our radio doesn't spurt out endless hours of dull white man rock music that your Dad quite likes. Now there are two acts that feature annoying women pretending to be cockneys on vocals instead, and as a result we now want to start hurting ourselves with knives.
Reverend and the Makers. Kate Nash. Go away. You're making Baby Jesus cry. If anyone actually relates to the fact that "'e sed to Keeley 'e finks Oi'm spesh-ul", or they think rhyming "bittah" with "fittah" is a good and clever thing, they'd be better served by having bricks thrown at them. It's music for people who pay £3 for a small section of a song as a ringtone, when they could get the full song for 99p anyway.
That's why today BrokenFM is starting a new campaign. Cut out the badge below, and proudly wear it at all times. With any luck, the campaign will be up there with the Dennis The Menace Fan Club and Blue Peter in the badge ubiquity stakes by the start of November.
Granted, there are tons of brilliant acts making music right now, such as The Go! Team, The Hold Steady, Bonde De Role, MIA, but it's never any of them that seem to get played on the radio we've got to listen to in work. Sadly. Which is just one of the reasons we really chuffing well hate our job right now. And that last past is worth saying, because we're guessing the head of the HR department from Associated Chocolate Ice-Cream, Cake And Puppies Incorporated reads this blog.
Now, in the modern space age days of September 2007, the music world is a very different place. Now our radio doesn't spurt out endless hours of dull white man rock music that your Dad quite likes. Now there are two acts that feature annoying women pretending to be cockneys on vocals instead, and as a result we now want to start hurting ourselves with knives.
Reverend and the Makers. Kate Nash. Go away. You're making Baby Jesus cry. If anyone actually relates to the fact that "'e sed to Keeley 'e finks Oi'm spesh-ul", or they think rhyming "bittah" with "fittah" is a good and clever thing, they'd be better served by having bricks thrown at them. It's music for people who pay £3 for a small section of a song as a ringtone, when they could get the full song for 99p anyway.
That's why today BrokenFM is starting a new campaign. Cut out the badge below, and proudly wear it at all times. With any luck, the campaign will be up there with the Dennis The Menace Fan Club and Blue Peter in the badge ubiquity stakes by the start of November.

At least Lily Allen uses her 'telephone voice' when performing a song that lots of people are going to hear.
Good News!There are two (count 'em) previews of the new High Water Marks album on their MySpace page.Bad News!Their new album ('Polar', on the brilliantly named Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records label) doesn't seem to actually be...
The Day After Live Earth, We Chopped Down a Tree*
- 7/10/2007 12:17:00 am
- By Mark X
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(Legal notice: Heavy use of sarcasm ahead. It may be best to wear or hat or something.)MUSIC SALES AT LOWEST SINCE RECORDS BEGANhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2045335.eceMeanwhile, in other news:ELTON BUYS INTO EXCLUSIVE SUNSET TOWERhttp://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/elton%20buys%20into%20exclusive%20sunset%20tower_1026829SIR ELTON BUYS RUSSIAN .("Pawn" - ed). PAINTINGShttp://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/sir%20elton%20buys%20russian%20.porn.%20paintingsMADONNA...
Similar to what we said about that mp3 below, but inserting the following facts into the correct places.Video clipBootleg of Nirvana live in San Diego in 1993 that we picked up at a car boot saleCome As You...
The BrokenFM (Morally Ethical) Flexidisc Collection: Part One
- 5/28/2007 03:55:00 pm
- By Mark X
- 1 Comments
First update for an age, we know. Sadly, the decision to build ourselves a gigantic media rack out of chicken wire, reinforced cardboard and Cyan-Taque (the non-copyright infringing local discount supermarket equivalent of Blu-Tac) was a catastrophic one,...
One of the fundamental rules of The Internet goes something like this; if Bill Hicks said it, it is therefore gospel, and Unquestionably The Right Thing To Think. One of the things people like to link this to...
The thing is, Velouria just works as a pop video. It's clearly rubbish, and yet, it's utterly great. But what does it look when run at 'proper' speed? As ever, YouTube has the answer: ...
How Much Does BrokenFM Like The New Apples In Stereo Album, Then?
- 1/30/2007 11:40:00 pm
- By Mark X
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Well...The High Water Marks being a sort of spin-off band from Apples In Stereo, of course.(Sorry, everyone. We'll try and do a non-rubbish update sometime soon.) ...
So, What *Is* The Greatest Song Ever Written In The History Of Music, Then?
- 1/05/2007 04:54:00 am
- By Mark X
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Well, according to the listeners of Virgin Radio, it's... Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol.No, really: see?They're right of course, and we full expect to see it remain in the top spot of next year's annual chart rundown of...