The Show:  Joan Collins, Henry Rollins, Elizabeth Taylor, Norman Mailer

And on with the show…

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

    • HEEMS & SID VASHI – DAME *
    • ጀምበሩ JEMBERU – ልቤ ቆሞ Libe Komo
    • METRONOMY – Contact High – Metronomy x Miki x Faux Real
    • JPEGMAFIA – SIN MIEDO
    • AKWAEKE – Jean Grey
    • ANTENA – Achilles
    • BOO – Hyper Feminine
    • HINDS – Superstar
    • UNKNOWN ARTIST – Be Good To Me
    • OVERMONO – Gem Lingo (ovr now) (featuring Ruthven)
    • KILLER MIKE – HUMBLE ME
    • RHYS LANGSTON & STEEL TIPPED DOVE – beginning again
    • CENTRAL CEE & ICE SPICE – Did It First
    • LELLA FADDA – FOKAK MENI
    • SEEFEEL – Sky Hooks
    • PACIFIC – Jetstream
    • ELKKA – Right Here
    • FAT WHITE FAMILY – Bullet Of Dignity (Acid Arab Remix)
    • THURSTON MOORE – Sans Limites (featuring Laetitia Sadier)
    • JOHN GLACIER – Steady As I Am
    • BURIAL – Phoneglow
    • VYLANA & JON HOPKINS – RITUAL (palace)
    • CINDY LEE – To Heal This Wounded Heart
    • YARD ACT – We Make Hits (Live @ Glastonbury 2024)
    • DANNY BROWN – Ain’t It Funny (Live @ Glastonbury 2024)
    • ALVVAYS – Marry Me Archie (Live @ Glastonbury 2024)
    • LAST DINNER PARTY – Second Best (Live @ Glastonbury 2024)
    • JANELLE MONAE – Float (Live @ Glastonbury 2024)
    • SQUID – Houseplants / Narrator (Live @ Glastonbury 2024)

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: I can’t hear the eulogy, the stream is bad quality

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 17 June 2023

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • PINKY ANN RIHAL – Jabse Dekha Hai
  • SHIT & SHINE – DR+R
  • LIFEGUARD – Alarm
  • TELENIGHTS – COKE
  • CHERYL JOHNSON – pungus
  • FLUX OF PINK INDIANS – Tube Disaster
  • RUTI – Nothing’s Easy
  • A SMALL WORLD – The Life You Lead
  • MOOR MOTHER – STORIES (featuring Sovei)
  • MANDY, INDIANA – The Driving Rain (18)
  • CRIME FRIEND – Darkling
  • BAWO – figured out.
  • KILLER MIKE – Motherless (featuring Eryn Allen Kane)
  • CREEP SHOW – Moneyback
  • WATER FROM YOUR EYES – Out There
  • BEYONCÉ, KENDRICK LAMAR – AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM
  • FAXID – Acid In My Head
  • ROMY – Loveher
  • RVG – Tambourine *
  • JOHN PARISH & ALDOUS HARDING – Three Hours
  • DENZEL CURRY – Endtroduction [cold blooded soul version]
  • CHERYL JOHNSON – all i can do is smile
  • SIGUR RÓS – Blóðberg
  • MANDY, INDIANA – Iron Maiden
  • THE MARY ONETTES, AGNES ALDÉN – Future Grief
  • CYDNEE WITH A C – CRY ALONE
  • THE MARY ONETTES – Forever Before Love
  • PJ HARVEY – I Inside The Old I Dying
  • SKIIFALL – Yuteman Denis
  • MENZI & SCRATCHCLART – Q
  • GRIAN CHATTEN – Last Time Every Time Forever
  • CORNERSHOP X PINKY ANN RIHAL – Disco’s Main Squeeze
  • FLY ANAKIN – Things Change (featuring Demae)
  • MANDY, INDIANA – Love Theme (4K VHS)
  • SHIT & SHINE – BUZZARD BACK TREE
  • DAFT PUNK – Infinity Repeating (featuring Julian Casablancas + The Voidz)
  • BAR ITALIA – changer

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Switch sides swiftly, then I’m onside chippin’

 

Switch sides swiftly, then I’m onside chippin’
Catch me online ’cause my team stay winning
You know how it is
They’re gonna put it in the paper like, “Which baller is this?”
I hide my face and wear the mask in the vids

What is the true identity of the supposed Premier League footballer turned masked, mystery rapper Dide?

Arsenal forward Eddie Nketiah? No chance. Unless we’re mistaken, at no point does anyone say current Premier League footballer. We’re old school – our money’s on Sir Les Ferdinand.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 20 May 2023

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • BLUR – The Narcissist
  • SKEPTA, JAMMER – Mas Murder
  • GLÜME – It’s Good To Be Back
  • SOFIE ROYER – Mio
  • CONFIDENCE MAN, DANIEL AVERY – On & On (Again)
  • SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES – Monitor
  • WITCH – Avalanche of Love (featuring Sampa the Great)
  • WATER FROM YOUR EYES – 14
  • DRY CLEANING – Swampy
  • LIONMILK – Treat Yourself Like A Friend
  • SHIT & SHINE – DIRT BIKE
  • ZAK VORTEX – City Nights (Remix)
  • THE LEMON TWIGS – Every Day Is The Worst Day Of My Life
  • CLARK – Dolgoch Tape
  • GOAT – Remind Yourself (Marlene Ribeiro Remix)
  • PINKERTON’S ASSORTED COLOURS – Mirror Mirror
  • NATION OF LANGUAGE – Stumbling Still
  • THE HIVES – Bogus Operandi
  • BOYS NOIZE & PUSSY RIOT – Chastity (featuring Alice Glass)
  • DANIEL AVERY – Going So Low (ft. Georgia)
  • LETTING UP DESPITE GREAT FAULTS – Vanity/Losing
  • TEMPS – ificouldjust
  • BODYWASH – Massif Central
  • NIGHTBUS – Mirrors
  • MARY MONDAY – I Gave My Punk Jacket To Ricky
  • SHIT & SHINE – REWOWER
  • CRIME FRIEND – Runt Mind
  • ROSALÍA – LLYLM
  • KEYWANE BALTIMORE – If I Want It
  • GRIAN CHATTEN – The Score
  • D&V – Conscious (Pilot)
  • FAT TONY, BLOCKHEAD – I’m Thinking ‘Bout Moving
  • KILLER MIKE – Don’t Let The Devil (featuring El-P, thankugoodsir)
  • DIDE – Thrill *
  • DESIRE – I Have Seen Enough

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: My Nana is the manager so I can drink free Tizer.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 5 November 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

    • HUDSON MOHAWKE – Dance Forever
    • JULIAN COPE – The Day After the Aberfan Disaster *
    • GROTTO TERRAZZA – Tropische Krankheiten
    • HARDNOISE – Untitled
    • EYEDRESS – Song 2
    • SUIIX – All The Time
    • WHITE GIRL WASTED – 999 (featuring Lee Scott & Milkaveli)
    • GIRL IN RED – October Passed Me By
    • RHYS LANGSTON – DJ Khaled Muff Diving (featuring Big Flowers, Pink Navel, Old Grape God)
    • jaydonclover – prettier
    • WAEVE – Drowning
    • G-MIGOS – Jigger Remix (featuring Sarkodie)
    • KILLER MIKE – TALK’N THAT SHIT!
    • MAJOR LAZER & MAJOR LEAGUE DJZ – Koo Koo Fun (featuring Tiwa Savage and DJ Maphorisa)
    • MAR-VISTA – The Black Sun Shones Today
    • MICHAEL J. BLOOD & RAT HEART – Ooze Cruise
    • LUKE HAINES, PETER BUCK – Psychedelic Sitar Casual
    • GREG VANDIKE – Clone
    • MOODYMANN – Freeki Mutha F cker
    • BATIDA – Ah! (featuring Poté)
    • GO! TEAM, THE – Look Away, Look Away (featuring The Star Feminine Band)
    • YOUNG FATHERS – I Saw
    • RUN THE JEWELS – Caminando En La Nieve (featuring Akapellah, Apache & Pawmps) (Orestes Gomez & Nick Hook’s Versión)
    • GHEE BABII –  Frontend
    • MAINEY VENT – Ox2
    • REDVEIL & DENZEL CURRY – pg baby (Remix)
    • UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA – I Killed Captain Cook
    • SOFT SHOULDER – 300% Filer
    • YOU’RE THE BEST – Rise Up
    • NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS – Pretty Boy
    • SPECIAL INTEREST – Foul
    • CONFLICT AT SERENTIY POOLS – good pedestrian
    • MOZART ESTATE – Relative Poverty

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Plot. Plan. Strategise. Organise. Mobilise.

And now for a public service announcement from RTJ’s Killer Mike on the matter of the killing of George Floyd

On with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 6 June 2020

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • KILLER MIKE – Plot. Plan. Strategise. Organise. Mobilise. (Speech at Atlanta Mayor’s press conference 29 May 2020)
  • RUN THE JEWELS – Never Look Back
  • PLACES FOR PEOPLE – Wake-up Call
  • LOGIC SYSTEM – Be Yourself
  • DAVID & STEPHEN DEWAELE – EMS Synthi 100: Movement 6
  • DESOLATE TESTAMENTS – orbitals
  • GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE – Past Time
  • JAGĀ – We Once Knew
  • KEANU RAVES – Floor Support (Social Sport remix)
  • BUTCH SUNDANCE – Tank Vs Humans
  • CAPTAIN MUSTACHE – The Love Song
  • KATE CARR – Shimmers Rising
  • CUCINA POVERA & ELS – Marmori
  • SNOWGOOSE – The Making of You
  • JOE SAMPSON – This Has Been An Issue For As Long As I Can Remember
  • KOOBA TERCU – Cemento Mori
  • THE DEEP SIX – C Word
  • THE TRENDEES – Dad Sneakers
  • DISTANT STARS – Ünterbrix
  • DLINA VOLNY – Do It (Drumappella)
  • CHICKEN LIPS – Goldenlips (DJ Sotofett’s Golden Funk Mix)
  • DOCTOR ECHO – Polka Dub
  • DXNO – Deal
  • JOONE – Uncertainty
  • RETINA​.​IT – Apeiron
  • ASTEROID ANXIETY – Lyalin

* The source of this week’s lyrical heading.