Sound Screen: Merry Christmas from Sound Screen

As a well-wishing exercise that doubles up into a call-to-arms, I wrote a little piece on the big day to drum up a little more support for our under-staffed yet promising website.

Click here to read all about it.

Leeds Guide: Interview - Dylan Moran

In my highest-profile task to date, I interviewed Dylan Moran about life and how everything is going in the build-up to his new stand-up gig next year.

Click here to read more, though it's also published in the last Leeds Guide of 2010 - my first thing ever in magazine print!

Sound Screen: One Hit Wonderland - Billy Ray Cyrus

The father of a now-greater star will never be forgotten for the smash-hit single he gave the world. Or should that be 'inflicted'?

Go here right now for more about the song.

Sound Screen: Album Retrospective - Beautiful Freak (Eels)

It was the album that launched Eels, but was it a debut worth remembering

Click here for a look at a retrospective about 1996 album Beautiful Freak.

Sound Screen: Stop Me If You've Heard These Ones Before - Super Furry Animals

Everyone’s heard the name, but can they name the music? You'll've heard plenty of it without even realising, I think.

Click here to read more in this week's feature.

Sound Screen: One Hit Wonderland - The Mock Turtles

You know when companies insist on finding a good song and then go and bury it along with their corporate branding? The Mock Turtles certainly do.

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Sound Screen: Stop Me If You've Heard These Ones Before - KC and the Sunshine Band

KC and the Sunshine Band proved that you really could get your funk on without you even meaning to; their music is just that damn infectious.

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Sound Screen: One Hit Wonderland - Eric Carmen

Eric Carmen is responsible for one of the most depressing yet powerful songs of all time.

Not sure what it is? Click here to read more about him.

Sound Screen: Album Retrospective - Moon Safari (Air)

I love Air; they make my top five list (perhaps top three) every time I have to name the bands I love. For this week's album retrospective, I look at the release that made me fall in love with them.

Click here for my reasons.

Sound Screen: Stop Me If You've Heard These Ones Before - Minnie Riperton

There's no way you'll have never heard Minnie Riperton's work. Then again, there's only one way to confirm this.

Click here to hear some of her songs and read more about the great Chicagoan star.

Sound Screen: Spotify Sunday - Miscellaneous Party LOLs

I spent ages racking my brain as to an idea for my next playlist - one that didn't focus on one band, but a theme. Luckily, I made a playlist last weekend for a friend's birthday and it worked a treat, and with good feedback today I decided to add to it and convert it into a piece for Sound Screen.

Click here to sample its delights, if you have Spotify (and you should).

Sound Screen: One Hit Wonderland - Lou Bega

With this song, people were able to get inside the mind of a German Italian-Ugandan player and his harem of women, or the fantasies of a lonely man. You be the judge.

Click here to return to 1999.

Sound Screen: Stop Me If You've Heard These Ones Before - Commodores

I've always had a big thing for the Commodores, though it's only in recent years that even I've realised their full back catalogue. Time to teach the masses, I guess.

Click here for a short look into the band.

Sound Screen: Album Retrospective - Lost Horizons (Lemon Jelly)

In my first album retrospective (or album review that lacks too much contemporaneousness), I look at Lost Horizons, a Mercury Music Prize nominee from 2003.

Click here to find out more.