It's A Love Of Music Thing
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"This is not a game it is a war and it is being lost. All day we are showered with the same formulaic, prepackaged and well marketed mediocrity. From reality TV to political spin, everything ‘real’ has been turned over to the media and PR companies for assessment and then either abandonment or assimilation. Music is no different, that which we love most has been led to the operating table, where slowly and clinically marketers and accountants have removed its heart" - The Zipper -

Hear! Here! (MTB in action, bands, send your words/pix) '
Got to the printers and didn't have enough money . Not giving in tho, some up here, more articles coming- anyway WORDS FROM MUSICIANS AND THE WORLD OF MUSIC
Some are at Damn Pest www.damnpest.com) the website by/for musicians/music fans - interviews & reviews, but also articles and essays by musicians * A Private Universe by Mikenebraska (essential article on "arrogance"(?) in rock) * * Work to live or live to work? by Matt of Empty Vessels - Bands how do you negotiate the work/music divide? * A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Rock*n*Roll Party by John Robb of Gold Blade (a view from the Russian stage) * and the latest from Zen * plus Rocklands Rocks Event live review * The Rise Of The DIY Industry *
and Some are Here Here... * Mansun - final single/album the new century's biggest non-existent rock phenomenom * The Underground is going Overground - links/pix - get connected * New Cross by people who actually live round there - * Snippets of Metro Riots, S*M*A*S*H, Queens Of Noize, things to spit at and how now to treat your Alternative Rock Idols... click here * Chet! An interview! No, really! (click here) Bloc Party by Bloc Party (click here) * who the f*** are corporation:blend?

ash & mulka, scotland. who the f**k are c:b?

from Summer 004 - using THE FORUM - feel free to join in
JUN-004 - CORPORATION:BLEND - D.I.Y. CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING
JUN-004 THE NEW WAVE OF NEW CROSS STARRING RHESUS + BLACK BIKINI ALPHA + THE VIOLETS + LADYFUZZ + ACCELERATOR AT A MIS-PLACED WEEKEND IN PARADISE...
DEC 003 - CATCH UP WITH ALTERNATIVE ROCK IDOL FEEDBACK (OF SORTS)
KINESIS, ART BRUT, MY RED CELL