When he’s consciously “English”, at least he doesn’t jump around telling us so, falling over himself in his enthusiasm to inform us how removed he is from those nasty, quasi-black-American rock’n’roll johnnies of t[…]

MacArthur Park: What’s It All About, Jimmy – page full of clippings and links related to “MacArthur Park”, Jimmy Webb’s metaphor-heavy angst epic, which has long been a source of cheap gags re. its supposed impenetrabili[…]

RIAA vs Napster: Glenn McDonald’s ‘position paper’ on the topic. The War Against Silence, Glenn’s staggeringly long-running (and just staggeringly long, period) music review site has taken a Jeremiac turn of late, and this is […]

Smashing Pumpkins Star To Quit Music? – the official Worst Band In The World seem to be carrying out the Worst Split In The World. The idea, my friend, is that you split. See? Not write another 14 songs and carry on going for a couple of years […]

Bill Grundy Interview: as if you wanted it, a transcript of the ‘notorious’ Sex Pistols/Billy Grundy interview, which I visited to confirm my suspicions re. Steve Jones saying “You fucking rotter” to Grundy. Rotter?? Who the h[…]

JOHN CAGE
John Cage, so his fans will insist on telling me, was a musical pioneer. Without him, music as we know it wouldn’t exist. As such, he is a complete bastard.
If Cage could be forgiven one thing, it would undoubtedly be the fact that wi[…]

MUSIC WITH STUPID TITLES THAT MY PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL WORKMATE SHOWED ME LAST NIGHT
Last night I went to a workmate’s house for a dinner party. Fine, thought I, it can’t be so bad. That was, until he broke out the music of the shameless: j[…]