Eamon’s on the radio! Good old Eamon with his novelty swearing. Of course it’s the ‘radio edit’, which reduces Eamon’s foul mouth to an impotent stutter – but it does make me think of how the technology of swear-re[…]

Better Late Than Never: Stereophonics ex-drummer says they were “a little bland”. Very perceptive of him.[…]

Why Doesn’t Sean Paul Release More Singles?
One of the many scenarios thrown out by MP3 optimists (within and without the record companies) is a future in which artists drip-feed their work to the public, putting new tracks up for sale and down[…]

It’s Just Like Watching…Hold On!: a link to welcome Tim back from his stateside holiday![…]

IHM POP CHAMELEON WATCH
Bowie Invites Fans To “Mash Him Up” – this is the sort of headline I dream of, but on this occasion my dream turns quickly into nightmare. The “mash-ups” Bowie is talking about are actually &#8216[…]

PopNose12 (1.5M) Today’s PopNose is unique in that I’ve not actually even heard it! It was picked by Nathalie and then prepared by me. The one slight drawback is that if I’ve got a shonky file I won’t know about it. Meanwhile,[…]

An interview with me about blogging. It’s a bit dry and grumpy because I did it in a rush at the end of work. There are interviews with other people too, all of whom write in Swedish: BIG UP THE SWEDISH BLOGOSPHERE! And of course the week after[…]

Lost in Translation (2nd bite): I kind of wish it had been set in space w. baffling aliens not tokyo in merely tokyan tokyans, cz you kept ending up thinking that the reason they are bored and lonely etc is they have no imagination jeez if *i* wz in […]

J’ck’ss >:0 :'(
The Independent has a little story I can’t find on the net – poss cz I don’t speak good Norwegian: ‘A 19-year-old man dressed a comic book character was killed when he was hit by a car in what app[…]

Entertaining to read Simon fessing up to not getting Kid Creole etc back in the day. One of the persistent curiosities of anglo-critical response to non-anglo music is the eternal threshold problem of the erm ‘Latin Tinge‘: Brit jazzbos a[…]