Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

Slovenia

  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • …And Carrot Rope – Pavement

    Of all the Pavement albums, Terror Twilight is the least “Pavement-like” and of all the songs on Terror Twilight, “…And Carrot Rope” is the least Pavement-like and as such as a song it perfe
  • Dollar Bill – Screaming Trees

    Even bastards get to lament and when they do, this song is for them.   Those of a certain age always look down on the new generations and wonder, in a pitiful way, whether they’ll get to experience
  • Seven songs that rocked my year – 2008 (Phil Murphy)

    O.k here’s the deal – I’m asked to get seven songs together that rocked my year (why seven? Maybe the editor is on a Madonna Kabalistic tip – who knows?). My clause – the
  • The Lottery

    This week I received a stern letter from the guvmint telling me I had not yet chosen which Pension Fund to “invest” my pension contributions in. If I had not made up my mind which horse to back wi
  • John the Revelator – From Blind Willie Johnson to Depeche Mode

    It could hardly be more rock n’roll – the frontman dies, and the group disbands with one member going off on a crazed visionary tangent. St. John, beloved disciple  – the only one,
  • The Trouble with the Greeks

    Gazeta Wyborcza’s man on Greece is Jacek Pawlicki. He has recovered somewhat from the shock of his interview on Wednesday with a Polish shopkeeper in Greece. Asked whether she feared for the saf
  • Going down to Liverpool – The Bangles

    There used to exist the perfect bar. It was on a sidestreet off Amsterdam’s main square, simply sitting there, waiting to be stumbled on. For years I used to go back there, sure each time that i
  • Imagining Italy – A state of Denmark vs Steal You Away

    Derek Raymond, the English noir writer whom Interpol knew better as Robin Cook, could spell in at least two languages, as his dystopian novel A State of Denmark proves. Leave aside comparisons to Orwe
  • Stay Positive – The Streets

    Instead of shedding tears over just how much Mike Skinner has forfeited his concrete jungle panache in a series of increasingly trend adhering, substance lacking albums since (and including it has to