Duel!: as promised, it’s interactivity time. A different poll every day, building into a knockout competition to decide who is the worst band in the world today. Vote early, vote often. This is Monday’s Duel, incidentally.[…]

We have an update! Freaky Trigger launches its Bad Music issue with a frankly incredible cover picture by my insane brother, and two new articles – a musing by me on growing up with parents who hated pop, and a howl of despair from David Naylor[…]

What to tell your parents about the history of electronica: what an amazing title for an article. Sensible 1997 primer, intelligently written and attractively laid out – and it isolates the way the problems with marketing the music were dressed[…]

Pop Rock Music And Mind Control: BEWARE! Thank goodness he’s never heard Coil, eh readers?[…]

Kids parents, and Music: Josh was asking in e-mail a while ago what music children could be played to make sure they, as it were, grew up right in music taste terms. This article would argue, I think, that it’s just sponsoring the interest of t[…]

REAL PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC. dada, surrealism, kitsch, LSD…: by Chris Bickel, ‘King of Epinions’, a Nurse With Wound review. (link via Sparky’s Rumpus Room)[…]

This is about fanzines: I think this is one of the best things Tangents ever published – a piece, back in 1996, on the fanzine explosion of the 80s and the opportunities for e-zines to similarly capture the moment. I’m blogging it because[…]

The Annual All Time Best of the Worst Country Song Titles: Ones which would also be on the Best of the Best Country Song Titles:
If The Jukebox Took Teardrops I’d Cry All Night Long
Out Of My Head And Back In My Bed
Heaven’s Just A Sin Aw[…]

‘Mom, I blew up the music industry’: interview with Shawn Fanning of Napster which unforgiveably gets how Napster works completely wrong. That said the article redeems itself somewhat by acknowledging Napster (and MP3s’) vast oncomi[…]

ORF ON FM4: “Tosender Applaus für Björk! Faule Tomaten für die All Saints!” – it’s a collaborative music weblog! It’s also in German! (link via Euroranch). On an almost totally unrelated note, FT got a link from a Fre[…]