I just came back from Paris.
As usual, I brought a size-of-a-playing-card copy of PTBJ logo with me and took a lot of useless pictures out and about in Paris.
While waiting to finish choosing the most ridiculous ones to put in the next post.. here’s something parisien, just to get in the mood.
Phoenix - Lisztomania (2009)

Before losing my “teenage status” in the mid 90’s, I had the chance to live a few years in probably the worst ranked decade of the XX century, at least in music reviews. Before becoming a shoegazer, before wishing to be Kim Deal’s husband (and PJ Harvey’s lover), before playing air guitar on Pumpkins’ “Cherub […]

I often talk about electronic music with Dino (London-based sardinian friend of mine). I know so little about it; Dino (aka Home Alone), on the other hand, loves it and produces it. A few months ago I asked him: “Who do you think is gonna be the next electronic/dance/disco/techno big thing?”. I “just” wanted a […]

Last year Friendly Fires’ “Jump in the pool” gained a post here on PTBJ, and I decided it also deserved a place among my own personal best singles of 2008 (here’s the unmissable and marvellous post about it. Still wonder why they didn’t give me the Pulitzer for it).
Last Christmas I bought myself