The History of House: sprawling in its coverage, intelligent and thorough in its internal links, and with a superb range of external links too….this is one excellent site. Follows House from the late 70s to the present, and puts this still much[…]

Who would have thought that my temporary move to Surrey would result in rich local music news links? From sleepy (and horrible) Redhill comes the world’s fattest boy band. Ho ho ho.[…]

Gareth L. leaps to the defence of Adorable. Provoked, apparently, by me, so I should say that all I remember about them was that bloke in his white suit, and “Sunshine Smile”, which Gareth rightly calls ‘insipid’. I don’[…]

Pitchfork reviews Loren Mazzacane-Connors: I only have one solo Connors album (9th Avenue), and one of his fine collaborations with Keiji Haino, but both discs get a fair bit of play from me still. Al Shipley writes an interesting review, though as w[…]

The Heavenly Jukebox: via everyone (well, Mike initially). Pretty much the ultimate Napster/copyright.MP3s article. Fine stuff.[…]