If you’re thinking of helping top bloggers come up with amusing gangsta rap parodies of popular marketing slogans, maybe Enculturation can help you understand the medium. It gives me immense pleasure to dismiss this lengthy, footnoteful, carefu[…]

Depeche Mode: Bite one
Chances are if you grew up in the 80s or 90s in Britain – you may have received a letter like this:
Chere Tanya!
Ca va?! Je suis ton amie de stylo, Marie France. J’habite a Rouen, j’ai quatorze ans, j&#8217[…]

RONAN KEATING – “LIFE IS A ROLLERCOASTER”
beating tom to the punch…on his own blog, no less! but keating is a little too foreign for my blog, so here we are.
anyway, young ronan is embarking upon a solo career as you might&#82[…]

VH1 : 100 Greatest Songs of Rock n’ Roll: constantly updating their hit parade of their ten biggest wanks, link courtesy of SwallowingTacks, who contrasts it to the Mojo list. And people wonder why Tanya thinks like she does….[…]

JOE MEEK
Joe Meek, eh? – what a cult. Time’s a funny thing – take a record like “I Hear A New World”. It was done in 1960, you know. And believe me you will know, because anyone into Joe Meek will tell you so, again and […]

Real player: here’s an interesting little interview with an A & R man at BMG, focussing on his views of MP3 and online music. Can you spot the contradiction here:
“How has the internet changed the music industry? What it is going to […]

Beatles head list of greatest songs: surprise surprise. This is the list that Fred linked to yesterday, but the Guardian helpfully provides the full 100. “In My Life” isn’t the worst song in the world but it’s still pretty clo[…]

There is nothing special to mark this track out from any other slow PSB track (ie – Chris Lowe had let the drum machine go down the pub). It marks the end of the Actually album like any other piece of introspective Neil Tennant nonsense. And I […]

Kathleen wants songs about people called Kathleen. Surely the Tindersticks did one, on some limited edition single. And equally surely it was a cover of something…..the name Townes Van Zandt crawls into my mind. Only one way to check: yes. I&#8[…]