Record Reconstructor

  This week:  Songs to be annoyed at work to, new releases, a listening project grab bag, tangential discussion of tennis, and finally settling whether The Strokes are better than The Beach Boys. I swear each of these posts is not going to be me making excuses for not listening to 30 albums a week, but if you've noticed a slow-down in my consumption rate for the past couple of weeks, that is both based on the shoulder injury I suffered being manly last week (mostly pain free now and seems to have fixed itself, thanks for asking), but also because we've just concluded two weeks of Wimbledon tennis coverage, an annual event which sees Catherine and I glued to our sofa for much of our free time during that fortnight because we love tennis and it only happens once per year.  We've been playing Tennis together for probably nearly a decade now, somehow I have accidentally ended up on the Board of Directors for the tennis club we are members of*, and we play together in the Mixe...

  This week: The Internet, Brandi Carlile, Tame Impala, Wilco, Fleetwood Max, Sarah McLachlan, Bruce Springstee n, Sneaker Pimps, INXS and Maroon 5 It's a three-day weekend here in the UK which means that Mondays are the new Sundays when it comes to posting weekly wrap ups.  There are a lot of moving parts in play in the household this week - first, Catherine is away on a holiday with her mother on the Scottish island I want to move to one day, which is making me jealous, but has also offered me an unexpected Garbage Week Redux opportunity which, I'll admit, I have not taken any advantage of, mainly eating home cooked meals and staring at my computer trying to figure out how to bring in my Pearl Jam article for some kind of crash landing. The other major concern has been my own impending trip away, this time to UK Games Expo, one of the largest Board Game conventions in Europe, at the Birmingham NEC starting on Thursday.  My first UKGE was I think 2014, when I went for a ...