cry tuff Shot dead on home turf in Kingston, Jamaica in 1983 following a confrontation, seemingly, with an opportunistic armed intruder, Michael James Williams - aka Prince Far I - qualifies for an honorary season ticket on the Bleachers; no refund....

a curiosity only... by deed of absurdist dissension, and conspicuously excluded from the 1984 Polydor release of Ian Dury & the Music Students' "4,000 Weeks Holiday", the executive decision to derail the project as the result of craven...

ANC 1021. Lifted from their 1975 LP, "Elastique" - also released on the UK independent Anchor label - "Why Did You Do It ?" remains as taut and inviting a proposition as a 38" peach in a g-string. Brassy white funk delivered without irony or...

not a rerun of the basement tapes, but an ear full of soot in the ink well. brass necked plagiarism, above, by ib. If you happen to be in the vicinity of Nashville, Tennessee this coming Sunday, December 13th, do not neglect to pay a visit to The...

tick... tock... tick... Like my Polish grandfather, I find myself preoccupied with watches. Wristwatches, to be precise; pocket watches, too. Silver oysters. Clocks, on the other hand... twice strike me with deeper forebodings. The bronchial tick and...