Abba to Zappa
The blog from the writers and editors of Observer Music Monthly
Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb dines out on the leftovers from the New Yorker's Thanksgiving turkey
Maggoty Lamb: The New Yorker likes to celebrate the festive season with a dodgy musical proposition – this year, that hip-hop is dead
Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb enjoys the latest hip-hop beef with a side order of Reggae Reggae sauce
Maggoty Lamb: From Hip Hop Weekly to the Source, urban music magazines offer a mixed approach to covering rap's inner conflicts
The Record Doctor responds
After years of dealing with celebrity patients, Observer Music Monthly's Record Doctor has extended his working hours and opened his clinic to all-comers. Here are his latest responses to your queries
Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb gambols on the noughties retrospectives
Maggoty Lamb: Are the 44 best albums of the last decade really all made by white people? Is Outkast's B.O.B. really better than Crazy in Love?
The Record Doctor responds
After years of dealing with celebrity patients, Observer Music Monthly's Record Doctor has extended his working hours and opened his clinic to all-comers. Here are his latest responses to your queries
Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb on the state of the nation's jazz mags
Magotty Lamb: What kind of public service is this column offering by simply saying nice things about The Wire every couple of months? The time has come to get down and dirty with the real stuff
Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb wonders if one name is being forgotten in the rush to close the doors of rock's journalistic pantheon
Maggoty Lamb: The trend of women taking over the editor's chair has prompted a frenzied outbreak of navel-gazing in the upper echelons of UK rock journalism
Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb finds common ground between tributes to Steven Wells and Michael Jackson
Swells's lurid imagination would have laughed at the idea of himself as the meat in a Farrah Fawcett/Jacko sandwich
The Record Doctor responds
Castlemorton and beyond: Fighting for the right to party
Was There Then: Vintage Oasis shots
Rock photographer Jill Furmanovsky takes us through some of her favourite Oasis shots
The Record Doctor responds
After years of dealing with celebrity patients, Observer Music Monthly's Record Doctor has extended his working hours and opened his clinic to all-comers. Here are his latest responses to your queries
Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb sobs a distraught 'mea culpa' over the fly-blown corpse of the music press
Maggoty Lamb: As the death bell tolls for another couple of music titles, is now the time for music journalism to properly embrace the digital blank canvas?
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After five years of dealing with celebrity patients, from Bill Nighy to Sir Michael Parkinson, the Observer Music Monthly's Record Doctor is extending his working hours and opening his clinic to all-comers online
Day 20: Venture
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Day 19: I hope you're happy now
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Day 18: Finally understanding
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Day 17: Keep going
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Day 16: Clear/Obscure
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Day 15: Half empty
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