Philip Oakey

Folks living in China have reason to look forward to a new Windows Mobile 6.5 device in the form of the Philips D908. 3.2" WVGA touchscreen display, GSM and CDMA/EV-DO connectivity, Wi-Fi support, GPS navigation, Bluetooth 2.1, a 5-megapixel camera, 1GB RAM, 2GB ROM and a microSD memory card slot that can further augment its memory capacity by up to 32GB. Read More

Philip Koenig has just released four new videos of Scribe and friends painting it up on the streets of KC. Read More

The reward is now $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of the killers of Philip Wise, the Salvation Army major slain during an apparent robbery attempt at a Salvation Army facility in the Baring Cross neighborhood of North Little Rock. Benny Johnson, leader of Stop the Violence, is sure someone knows something. Read More

From early electronic pioneers like Wendy/Walter Carlos , Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder to mainstream mega-stars Depeche Mode , the new BBC Four documentary, Synth Britannia , surveys the origins and escalation of British electronic music and what is now considered "modern dance pop". Read More

Giving birth to MTV, 1981 made important contributions to the history of music. Read More

Frank Yang It could be inferred from last week's review of Little Boots' debut Hands that I felt that she'd failed to deliver on the immense expectations foisted on her at the start of the year, what with everyone in the media ready to crown Ms Victoria Hesketh the queen of pop for 2009 and so her failure to utterly dominate every aspect of the music industry could only be viewed as a disappointment. Read More