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 band or not, you don't need a rarely updated yet frequently disappointing blog to tell you. You can just type it into iTunes or 7Digital or MySpace or YouTube or SoulSeek or pretty much anything. If you want to look for a band you don't know about yet, you can look at some of your LastFM neighbours and see who they're listening to. Or you could just post on Your Favourite Band's forum, and see who else people are listening to. You don't even have to invest any notable amount of time doing so, what with your modern Broad Band Inter Nets and all.
All music criticism is pretty much invalid, basically. Which is why anyone who still buys the NME, with actual money, is a bit of a daftie.
STUPID HYPOCRITE
Having said all that, erm, recommend some music to you is precisely what we're about to do (in our lovably ramshackle way) on the other side of this full stop: .
Pop quiz, hotshots. How many of the following things do you like?
All music criticism is pretty much invalid, basically. Which is why anyone who still buys the NME, with actual money, is a bit of a daftie.
STUPID HYPOCRITE
Having said all that, erm, recommend some music to you is precisely what we're about to do (in our lovably ramshackle way) on the other side of this full stop: .
Pop quiz, hotshots. How many of the following things do you like?
- Electronic music of both the Pet Shop Boys / Depeche Mode / Client variety, and of the lo-fidelity early-Baby-Bird / Lamb variety.
- Chris Morris' Blue Jam (when it was on the radio and good, not when it was on television and not good).
- Video games.
- Funny things.
- Free things.
- Bands that are quite a lot like Sonic Youth circa Kool Thing.
If you answered "yes" to the first five items, then the next bit is for you. If you answered "yes" to the last two things, the bit after that bit is for you.
THE FIRST BIT
One Life Left is Europe's only FM-broadcast videogame radio show. It drops English every Monday night on London and the internet's Resonance 104.4 FM, except it isn't doing that for a bit, as it's not on right now. Keep checking that website for updates.
(A FEW HOURS TOO LATE BREAKING NEWS: The new series of One Life Left actually started earlier tonight at 9pm. Luckily, it continues every Tuesday from now on, with a similarly nine-o-clockly starting time, each week for the next 24-or-so weeks.)
However! Each episode thus far can be nabbed from here in podcast form. Best of all, our favourite bit (and if you've read this far, soon to be your favourite bit) goes by the name of Free Market Economy. It's a series of monologues, songs and musings from the mind, mouth and fingers of Derek Williams. If you like the idea of hearing a market stall holder riffing on the theme of unsold second-hand copies of Xbox 360 Football Manager 2006, the Game/Gamestation merger or City of Heroes to a variety of musical stylings, then this is for you. If you don't like the idea of those things, you're wrong and you should.
Don't take our word for it (oh, you weren't? Bah). You can soon find yourself downloading it by clicking on these words here, then make your own mind up. After listening to it. And that.
You should be able to subscribe to OneLifeLeft's podcast from iTunes once the new series begins. Until then, go here for previous episodes.
THE OTHER BIT
Now and then, BrokenTV TV (which once made it into the "Top 100 Most Viewed : (Today) : Comedy" section of YouTube for about an hour) receives a friend request from someone else. Usually, these are merely automated offerings plugging godawful Country and Western music, or right-wing American conspiracy theorists. Recently we got one from someone worth actually adding to our 'exclusive' 'friends' 'club'. Isa And The Filthy Tongues sounded a bit like they might be a performance art troupe that blurred a line between 'art' and 'filthy porn'. In actual fact, they're much better than that. They're, as our pre-amble suggested, quite a bit like Sonic Youth circa Kool Thing, only not quite as good.
Lucky, Not Being Quite A Good As Sonic Youth Performing Kool Thing is still a very good thing to be. And so here are a couple of their videos.
"EDUCATION"
"FINDERS FUCKERS"
Both good, and as far as we're concerned "very much worth it, gov'nor".
THE FIRST BIT
One Life Left is Europe's only FM-broadcast videogame radio show. It drops English every Monday night on London and the internet's Resonance 104.4 FM, except it isn't doing that for a bit, as it's not on right now. Keep checking that website for updates.
(A FEW HOURS TOO LATE BREAKING NEWS: The new series of One Life Left actually started earlier tonight at 9pm. Luckily, it continues every Tuesday from now on, with a similarly nine-o-clockly starting time, each week for the next 24-or-so weeks.)
However! Each episode thus far can be nabbed from here in podcast form. Best of all, our favourite bit (and if you've read this far, soon to be your favourite bit) goes by the name of Free Market Economy. It's a series of monologues, songs and musings from the mind, mouth and fingers of Derek Williams. If you like the idea of hearing a market stall holder riffing on the theme of unsold second-hand copies of Xbox 360 Football Manager 2006, the Game/Gamestation merger or City of Heroes to a variety of musical stylings, then this is for you. If you don't like the idea of those things, you're wrong and you should.Don't take our word for it (oh, you weren't? Bah). You can soon find yourself downloading it by clicking on these words here, then make your own mind up. After listening to it. And that.
You should be able to subscribe to OneLifeLeft's podcast from iTunes once the new series begins. Until then, go here for previous episodes.
THE OTHER BIT
Now and then, BrokenTV TV (which once made it into the "Top 100 Most Viewed : (Today) : Comedy" section of YouTube for about an hour) receives a friend request from someone else. Usually, these are merely automated offerings plugging godawful Country and Western music, or right-wing American conspiracy theorists. Recently we got one from someone worth actually adding to our 'exclusive' 'friends' 'club'. Isa And The Filthy Tongues sounded a bit like they might be a performance art troupe that blurred a line between 'art' and 'filthy porn'. In actual fact, they're much better than that. They're, as our pre-amble suggested, quite a bit like Sonic Youth circa Kool Thing, only not quite as good.
Lucky, Not Being Quite A Good As Sonic Youth Performing Kool Thing is still a very good thing to be. And so here are a couple of their videos.
"EDUCATION"
"FINDERS FUCKERS"
Both good, and as far as we're concerned "very much worth it, gov'nor".
