Sabattleco: music blogs? They’re old hat, man. Sabattleco (can’t figure out the title, no matter) is a music journal and it’s great.[…]

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: the very excellent, very indie western homes takes on Sergeant Pepper and OK Computer on the same day! Waaah! The struggle to say something new about Pepper’s is an unwinnable one, though wh’s […]

Songwriting of Merritt–and Distinction: a Washington Post feature on Stephin Merritt, and as good an opportunity as any to mention that 69 Love Songs, one of the grandest records ever made, is finally getting a UK release on indie label Circus.[…]

Rock ‘n’ Rape: an Utne Reader writer with a quick overview of rock’s ‘new misogyny’, post-Woodstock ’99. Courtney Love has probably the most interesting things to say. Does liking Eminem and not liking Sarah MacLac[…]

Dancing About Architecture focusses on Lester Bangs, who was a famous rock critic, who is dead, who has had a biography written about him. Cue much flouncing and muttering about the parlous state of the rockcrit art (not from DAA, to their credit, th[…]

The Problem With Music: Josh sent me (why me specifically, apart from that I’m a major label pimp and all?) to this Steve Albini rant, which appeared in slightly different form in an APA I’m in, several years ago. Indeed, lots of the APA […]