THE BYRDS – “We’ll Meet Again”
Here’s the great thing about The Byrds when they started: they’d hit upon a pop sound so vital and viral that every song on their first album could sound the same and you knew they so[…]

MusicJournalist.com: it’s a site for music journalists. Not being one, I don’t know how useful they might find it. Heh.[…]

MANDY MOORE – “IN YOUR POCKET”
mandy moore, light of my life, fire of my loins. my sin, my soul. man-dy-moore: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. man. dy. moore.
in the[…]

For points of comparison: Across the Atlantic and a few hours later, I spun a couple of records for the benefit of Philadelphia rock-types taking a breather from the U.S. Maple show—reaction highlights included seven (seven!) people making joyfu[…]

Too Many Words?: Oh, you can never have too many words about music!
First, there’s Neumu.com, a new endeavor run by Michael Goldberg (the former editor-in-chief of Addicted to Noise, once THE pre-eminent webzine for all things musical & h[…]

DJ Cockfarmer’s Club Sussed Playlist
Spot the desperate token indie records put on to try and get people dancing. If you like the sound of this then DJ C-Farmer is available for weddings, parties, anything. And he’ll be on the decks on Ju[…]

Get some sleep, man!: Mike’s 24-hour foray into our popcult unconscious is over, and I hope everyone’s enjoyed it as much as I have.
And you never know, when Mike recovers, he might post to Land Of A Thousand Dances, his new weblog, which[…]

The eternal quandary: how to follow up a landmark debut album? If you’re Basement Jaxx, the answer is simple: make another one just as spectacular. It’s hard to believe that it’s now two years since Basement Jaxx’s Remedy seem[…]

We live in the future, baby, you and me. How does this make you feel? The centuries have been erected with this very goal in mind, thousands of years of popular culture have been building up to this. Time had been enjoying a prolonged childhood for t[…]

Strange Fruit News: Strange Fruit are lynchpins of the London indie scene, and have done an awful lot of good things and generally made London a happier place to be if you’re a fan of indie and indie-pop music. Which even I, occasionally, am. A[…]