Today's tip Dead Mellotron is the project of Baltimore-via-Louisiana singer Josh Frazier, who's MBV-infected album 'Glitter' comes out on Sonic Cathedral on May 7.
In the week they won the Brit for Outstanding Contribution To Music and made their upteenth NME cover, here's a look back at the extraordinarily prolific and varied career of Damon Albarn, as told via the medium of bloody loads of lovely photos.
Oh The Brits! Record industry schmoozing went hand in hand with some humdrum performances and some luke-warm controversy. We had the bizarre sight of the rubbish one from Gavin & Stacey stopping Adele’s speech, Plan B seemingly calling Ed Sheeran a very, very bad word and a previously robotic Lana Del Rey shocking everyone by showing something resembling human emotion (“Why is water coming out of my eyes?” etc etc).
Oh dear. Spare a thought for Spotify which, once the good ninja against piracy, now stands accused by an unlikely torch-and-pitchfork mob of Coldplay, Adele and The Black Keys (or at least, the labels who represent them). All are howling that Spotify doesn’t pay them enough. Many of the biggest artists in history - Metallica, The Beatles, AC/DC - remain missing from the Spotify catalogue. Arcade Fire and Bob Dylan have only reluctantly brought their songs to streaming services.
The one thing everyone was talking about post-Brits last night - apart from Ed 'The Sheeranator' Sheeran's titanically exciting performance, obviously - was the fact that Adele gave ITV cameras the finger after her speech was cut short to make way for Blur's live set. She was right to do so. I'd have done the same.
It took balls for A$AP Rocky to speak out against the lingering culture of homophobia that remains entrenched in hip-hop. “I don’t give a fuck about your business,” the world’s hottest new rapper told Spinner last week.
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