Still listening to the Rick Roderick lecture series for the umpteenth time. If you like Bill Hicks and a bit of Marcuse and Derrida et al then you must get these. Especially "Self Under Siege". He's the Southern Rock Colin MacCabe! Pretty easy to find on line last I looked and a good alternative to a radio diet of Nevin and Groves or Mayo and Kermode.
As for rock n roll et all. All these got a play this week
Hatfields - s/t
Can - Future Days
Crimson - Red
UB40 - Signing Off
Cimarons - On The Rock
Camel - A Live Record
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
Egg - Civil Surface
Strummer - Streetcore
Magma - Merci
Caravan - Fairfield Halls
Esperanza Spalding - Newport & Austin 2009
Ramases - Space Hymns & Glass Top Coffin
Mutamassik - That Which Death Cannot Destroy
Marillion - Clutching At Straws
Yes - Yessongs
Porc Tree - Stupid Dream
Opeth - Damnation
Ian Carr- Labyrinth
Norma Winstone - Edge of Time