Music

Punk: Attitude by Don Letts
This Saturday night, July 9, America's cable TV station Independent Film Channel,broadcasts the premier of Punk: Attitude, a Punkumentary (yeah, mega ouch) by Don Letts. Regular iJamming! readers will be...
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July 7, 2005

Musing for the Day…
“This business is as rotten to its artists at it was 50 years ago… One of the good things about the Internet is that it has helped to lessen the...
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July 6, 2005

Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
My Spring Cleaning Hitlist consisted of old cassette tapes I’d come across while doing some, yes, spring-cleaning. One of them was my own recording of The Smiths at County Hall...
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July 5, 2005

12″ Rulers
Much good music was played last night at 12" Bar in the East Village, where iJamming! Pub regulars Paddy Casino and Madina hosted the first of what will hopefully be...
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June 30, 2005

How We Gonna Make The Black Nation Rise (if they won’t hear their own?)
>This week’s Village Voice runs a cover story on how "Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience," an important subject worthy of serious discussion. Unfortunately, Bakari Kitwana’s piece...
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June 30, 2005

Corgan Gives Good Quotes
I had a laugh at Billy Corgan’s expense a few days ago about his full-page Chicago Tribune ad begging to get his Smashing Pumpkins back together. But in this week’s...
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June 30, 2005

(TRANSPORTATION) TALES OF (MY) TWO CITIES
1) LONDON "If you live anywhere near Crystal Palace, you’ll know that getting a black taxi home from the centre of London is not easy. The only time you’re likely...
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June 29, 2005