Harry’s Place Arts

Well, my new Q Magazine has just dropped through the door. I see the fidgety editors have overseen yet another re-design. It now looks like counterfeit Wired. I can’t keep up with the redesigns and reformats of what was once an iconic magazine. But that’s not what I want to post about today. It’s the [...]

Leaving aside the ghastly garish website and the rather annoying claim that this is all about “embracing social networking” rather than promoting Universal’s forthcoming Motown 50 album, deciding what your favourite Motown songs are is a great opportunity for pub-conversation-style musical discussion.
For the record, I’ve chosen purely on the basis of the ones I always [...]

I don’t approve of downloading music you haven’t paid for. I wouldn’t say I’m a fundamentalist about this because I can imagine some scenarios in which it is excusable or even legitimate to do so, but in general I think it is fair to say that the copyright holder has a right to defend their [...]