http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MYVv4tgQc

I just wanted to draw any passing readers' attention to this excellent debut by Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip, who are newly signed to Lex. Brilliant song.

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December 2006's Nightmare Before Christmas featured some brilliant artists. I got to see three of my all-time favourites -
Gang of Four, Sonic Youth and Deerhoof, all of whom were fantastic. I also experienced Thruston Moore's Bark Haze and The Melvins for the first time, and they're both bands I'm very glad to have seen.

Yet there was something strange about this ATP. The mood was different. And I think we all know what it was: the queueing. Right from the start, on the first night when we didn't get in to see The Melvins, we knew…

Here's a tip, iTunes fans: don't install iTunes 7.

I can just about put up with the fact that iTunes is becoming more bloated and Store-heavy with each release. I gritted my teeth when iTunes 7 kept stuttering when I looked at a web page with - god forbid - Flash on it, or opened up a new tab in my browser or clicked on a link.

But today I launched iTunes 7 only to find it's lost my entire library, podcast subscriptions and playlists. All my media files are still there of course, but somehow it's managed to clean-slate…

Clacking is great! Everyone should clack once in a while.

And by clacking I mean "hitting the side of a drum to make a clacking noise", which includes the rudiment known as the "rimshot" (not gay slang).

So which songs are in my off-the-cuff Top 5 which I'm bound to regret later? These'uns:

1. Teen Age Riot
Probably the best song to feature clacking, or indeed guitar, which lulls you in with its lovely clackity-clacks.

2. Ex-Spectator
It's pretty difficult to choose the best Fugazi clacker, as B. Canty has given just so much to the world of clacking. Honorable…

If you like music and have ears, you should listen to the music works of Luke Elliot. You can find them all here for free: http://www.goaste.com/goaste/luke.html

My favourite track is probably Yet More Trebucheting Backward.

Let me know. A look at my profile should give a pretty good indication of the stort of thing I'm inspired by.