The Rub: it isn’t (ha ha). I think we’ve linked this before. Indie-oriented music weblog, to-the-point and well-written. Also very tasty-looking: I had no idea pitas sites could look so nice![…]

A Face in the Crowd: and another new blog (yes, I’m going down an ilxor.com plug-yr-blog thread). This is by o.nate, a well-regarded ILM regular, talking about Astrobotnia, Carter Family, Sonic Youth (everyone’s talking about Sonic Youth […]

Smote Thy Brother: new(ish) music weblog. Don’t be put off by the (current) top post though (music weblogger bored of music! Will wonders never cease?).[…]

Pitchfork Reviews The Streets: and what do I think of that? I think they do a good job, from an admittedly transatlantic perspective. After all, Original Pirate Material IS a UK hip-hop album, as much as it is a “UK garage” or “elec[…]

A magnificent triviality: the title says it all. In his excellent write-up of Original Pirate Material, it’s interesting that Marcello recommends you skip ‘Don’t Mug Yourself’ and ‘Who Got The Funk?’, the two track[…]

Britney is done.
She had a good run, some great singles ( and this is really the only thing we judge pop on anymore) and an attempt to change her sound and image.
Losing her Virginity was a career move.
Going from Lolita to Lola was a p.r stunt .
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The BBC’s 100 Greatest Heroes. From the music world we have…
Bob Geldof!
George Harrison (AKA the one who went a bit more snooker-loopy for the sitars than anyone else – NB this sd NOT be rewarded! Now if he had embranced the ZITHE[…]

Watch out Steve Penk!!! Kate from Big Brother 3 (otherwise known as my personality-lacking nemesis) is TAKING OVER Steves late night show whilst Steve is “on holiday”. Will the prescence of Kate spark new life into the dire world of comme[…]

“Blame Jim O’Rourke” says Philip Sherburne. Which is not exactly germane to the arguments he puts forward about electroclash and about techno going pop here, here and here, but is a catchy hook for a blog entry. So, yeah, electrocla[…]

Super Bad:”It is our view that (with the exception of the majority of such e-mails received, which are in, full, support of our position) all such e-mailers should, not only be concerned but outraged, over the fact that a people, whose ancestry[…]