Every breath they take…: “The domination of mainstream hip-hop is a triumph for sampling in the same posthumous way that the Eagles’ Greatest Hits becoming the best selling album of all time would be a triumph for the nomadic spirit[…]

Let me count the ways: it’s a review of 69 Love Songs, from the Guardian. And it’s appropriately awed.[…]

Tom Cox has a go at sampling culture in the Friday Review, claiming one minute that nobody is using sampling to good effect, the next that nobody really pays attention to the charts, the next that all the interesting sampling takes place in the under[…]

Mind your own business: charming, I’m sure. A review of the new Belle And Sebastian album, which in my sensitive wimpy way I am liking quite a lot now. Incidentally, it –
– STOP THE PRESS! A gorilla? “Not planned” lies b[…]

News Unlimited | Brother beyond “I’d become the music industry Orson Welles. Everybody wants to take you to lunch, but nobody wants to give you the money to make the motion picture” – Scott Walker talks to The Guardian about h[…]

Satoshi Tomiie: Full Lick: Pitchfork Review: “UK garage is so exciting it makes me weep and reach for my passport” – and this in Pitchfork, no less! In Paul Cooper they seem to have at last found somebody who can write fairly convin[…]

Tanya Headon would be proud: Tangents’ Marino Guida lays into Dylan, but ends up in endearing Tangential style reviewing lots of other records instead. When they’re as good as the Triffids’ Calenture, I can’t complain.[…]

Perpetual Dawn – Perpetual Yawn more like.
Dr Alex Patterson – Doctor of tedium did not invent ambient music. He refined it – much like Shell do not invent the oil, they refine it and turn it into a substance that primarily (from a […]

DUEL!: Richard Ashcroft vs Moloko! Ugh.
As an aside, I’m really sorry for not attending to my e-mail that much lately. I’m going to put aside some time this weekend to attend to my sprawling inbox, so those of you who’ve written exp[…]