westwood's new show

westwood's new show

as part of the in new music we trust strand. kinda weird but aight! news about the jay-z album, played out bangaz chart, reggae chart with goldfinger (er what the chart is based on is unclear but at least goldfinger admits "ghetto story" is new to precisely nobody), old badboy freestyle session, and... a rundmc primer.

ok so that last part seemed like satire, and i thought, didnt r1 spend the last ten years grimly eradicating the need to introduce entire genres over and over again to the hairy cornflake audience. but er it is freshaz week, and it gives westwood a chance to mine the archives for interview gems (here's rundmc defending the "its like that" j nevins rmx, its cute), so maybe next week he'll do a krs one primer and we can hear that show when he called westwood a div and they had a massive row!

overall it seems that r1 weeknights are turning very 6music, a throwback to when new music was gently cushioned between familiar songs we can all agree on, with precisely that obnoxious attitude informing everything - colin murray's show is spectacularly corny cosiness with jokes and promises never to play "hey ya" immediately followed by playing that killers 'i got soul but i'm not a soldier' song as if that was somehow less exposed?! doesn't seem like they trust new music that much.