Trout CD Reviews: what a beautiful and clever way of presenting a music review site. Sadly the music in question is the kind that I’m 95% bored of, but a lot of you might dig it hugely.[…]

“The thing here, is letting girls know what guys talk about”. Oh really? Well, as long as it’s educational, who’s to complain? But exactly what topics would you expect a song dedicated to thongs to cover off, I wonder: which t[…]

THE ALUMINUM GROUP – “Impress Me” (MP3)
So it’s quarter past seven, I’m sick as a dog and everybody else has gone home. I’m left with striplit walls and copier hum and a spreadsheet full of data on the Canadian pow[…]

Billie! No! Don’t do it! Worrying news c/o the NME: Billie goes indierock! The inevitable career path, really.[…]

This kind of reciprocal linking appears to be weblog ettiquette, but that’s fine, since the people at log.nu seem nice anyway.[…]

Memories of Ian Dury, courtesy of the BBC site.[…]

I have no recollection at all of why I wanted to hear something by Seely, and now Pitchfork have banged on so much about the Cure I’m not sure I still do. And yet…if anyone knows about the band, they could always set me straight.[…]

Bigheads need not apply: it’s related to pop, tangentially – it’s just a shame (if not surprising) that people with this kind of understanding of the music aren’t working in the business directly.[…]

Napster — friend or foe?: the debate continues in Salon. I agree mostly with what the piece says, though I think the reason rock fans kvetch about the music industry was as much because it’s a cheap means of looking rebellious and indepen[…]

I know it’s more than slightly cheesy to blog your own site, but Mike’s piece on synths, The Rock Machine Turns You On!, is by far the best-researched thing I’ve ever had the pleasure to publish and I’d urge anyone reading thi[…]