3-Chord Monday #21
I'm more excited than is probably appropriate to be seeing Thomas Dolby this Wednesday, and I have Kevin Federline to thank for it all. A little while ago Mr. Spears sampled a Mobb Deep song which contained a cleared sample of a Dolby song (which K-Fed did not clear). That aspect of the story is fascinating to me; you can be sure that there will be many more lawsuits as people sample more music with second and third-tier sampling.

But anyway, if not for the dustup I wouldn't have been clued into Dolby's small-club tour. Maybe he'll play some of that Howard the Duck stuff. Here is the leadoff track from the overlooked second album (which gave us the minor hit "Hyperactive!"). He's executed in the video, if I recall correctly, making it part of an interesting subgenre.
Thomas Dolby - "Dissidents"