Sunday, December 26, 2010

Lifting the Whistle

Next month we investigate and confront the hitherto unchallenged predominance of the 'stereo nazi'.*

*Stereo nazi: the person or persons who, whilst looking you in the eye (albeit vacantly) and nodding in apparent agreement with whatever it is you're saying, is in fact detecting microscopic changes in air density in the vicinity of the stereo system in the next room typical of when an unauthorised person or persons is approaching the sound system with a view to cutting short the nazi's 12 CD-long selection of "classics".  

Find out exactly what happens next and why on SURFACE TO AIR in 2011.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

A campaign is born

Welcome to Surface to Air - the new arts blog dedicated to catapulting great new music straight between the eyes of the collective consciousness.

We at Surface to Air seek an all-round improved appreciation of the arts - especially music - in an era of rampant corporate criminality, routine wars and faux-celeb mass self-absorption.  Surface to Air identifies genuine artistic breakthroughs, investigates artistic malfeasance and otherwise filters the mindless gumph creeping into the realm of ideas.  Along the way, and as part of our many investigations into artistic superbness, Surface to Air hopes to promote and proliferate the best new music, arts and ideas (and the artists and thinkers behind them) with a barrage of affectionately imaginative, and bloody entertaining, criticism and encouragement.

To kick us off, we thought we'd start with a 'Best Of'.  Surface to Air's Twenty Best of 2010 is comprised (strangely enough) of a collection of top twenty albums of 2010 in reverse order, followed by the still-consequential and equally admirable Honourable Mentions, of which there are also twenty, each with its own unique Surface to Air epigram.  They are in fact interchangeable - the Honourable Mentions and the Twenty Best - depending entirely on your mood.  Your job is to enjoy.