Here’s another side to the Super Bowl half-time anarchy-show put on by Beyonce and her beret-wearing, fist-waving, pin-up Panther chorus-line. Two members of the New Black Panther Party, Brandon Baldwin and Olajuwon Davis were each awarded seven year sentences last year for their part in a plot to bomb Police. The attack itself was planned…

Reading about Los Angeles Police discovering the identity of Jane Doe 59 (Reet Jurvetson, born 1950, Montreal Canada) reminded me of this intriguing article by Peter Watts of The Great Wen blog. The 19 year old Reet Jurvetson was viciously stabbed to death and her body dumped close to Spahn Ranch were Charles Manson and…

So there we have it: the death of David Bowie, trending in its now customary fashion along the volatile cardiac graphs that characterise Social Media. It’ll probably reach a peak over the next few days when the waves on the Cultural ECG monitor practically shoot off the screens. It’s been a long time coming. 69…

That shitty four-piece you’ve been in with your mates since Year 8 eventually managed to get some daft industry type to hand over a blank cheque and to tell you you were going to be famous. Very famous. You wouldn’t have to talk to your former classmates at school. You wouldn’t have to get up…

It will come as no surprise to learn that the soundtrack to a film that is said to throw the rule-book out of the window, is scored by a man renowned for doing much the same thing with records. Speaking of his own idiosyncratic take on famous songs during his stage shows, the mercurial Jon…

Just for a moment, I’ll put aside all those cod Post-Modernist shenanigans – the chameleon-like innuendos and the half-arsed references to popular culture that Beck usually stirs up and instead play it simple. You bought ‘Mutations’? You’re halfway there. Building on (or narrowing) the field still further – depending on which way you look at…