THE BUGGLES – “Video Killed The Radio Star”
Cheap Eighties Nostalgia right? You listen this to remind yourself of high school.
But it is deeper then that, it is about the relentless push forward modernism. He listens to the wireles[…]

Coming back yesterday from Elk Island with my friend from Victoria, we sang “Blake’s Jerusalem” and “Should I Put My Sail to Rest” in the Kingsfold Tune and other hymns. She has a lovely crystalline alto, and it is a pl[…]

BREAKFAST OF BANALITY 7: ALL SAINTS – Black Coffee & Lady Marmalade
Without a doubt one of the most hateful bands ever for recording not one, but two breakfast themed records. It was a happy day round Headon Towers when this West London gi[…]

DJ MARKY – Tudo
Some guitar wankery and a beat. The beat is not hard enough to be house or techo, its not nearly fast enough to be jungle and not dry enough to be electro. Thats it, not other instruments nor other parts, just the wanky guitar[…]

The fifth and final part of the Pinefox’s Jubilee Stuff leads off a four-article Freaky Trigger update, which has quite unintentionally turned into a kind of indie rock then-and-now themed special. Representing the NOW, we have David Howie&#821[…]

Tarkus vs The Strokes[…]

The Jubilee Stuff – the fourth and penultimate section.[…]

Let’s Push Things Forward: if people are going to keep on talking about acid house, then a crucial point to remember is that over here the acid fuse wasn’t lit by the records, it was lit by the clubs – Balearic Beats, as the style w[…]

The lecture theatre is off warm, a faint scent of natural gas pitched on the air. Some students doodling matrices of multiple Xs or stickmen sex on their note pads, some scripting every single word the lecturer says. On the black board are forgotten[…]

SANDY & JUNIOR – Love Never Fails
PAULINA RUBIO – Don’t Say Goodbye
So, next round of Latin American superstars trying to get all the fame and money (but moslty fame) out of the US market, but probably this time neither of th[…]