(There is no nu-blogosphere, sillies. These people have mostly been going for ages in one form or another, it’s just that this befuddled old veteran hadn’t paid much attention until the roundtable stuff last week prompted him to start l[…]

A trendy concept in marketing currently is occasion-based marketing – the idea is that rather than advertise the product, you advertise the occasion in which the product might be consumed. This is what the ad campaign for C2 – Carling&#82[…]

5. Messiah – I Feel Love
After four tracks which could reasonably be labelled as ‘pop’, Rave ’92 finally starts the transition into hardcore proper. (more…)[…]

This is a set of 40 reviews of tracks on the Radio 1 anniversary compilation album, Established 1967. They were originally written for Stylus Magazine, where some of them appeared in the Singles Jukebox section. I wrote them “C90Go!” sty[…]

For obvious reasons I tend to avoid the Guardian on a Friday. Not only does it contain the Film and Music section, it has Beth Ditto’s advice column. I have a bit of advice for Beth Ditto myself actually – keep on eatin’ sister! Not[…]

This week’s tracks are on the theme of the Seventies (readers may see a pattern emerging). Enjoy them, even if you’re not playing the LJ game, but don’t say what they are in the comments boxes![…]

So if, as Ned says in the comments box to my blog post, yr online self is necessarily dissipated these days, why not use blogging as a way of bringing it together? If I feel this ‘works’ I’ll try to do it regularly – this is a[…]

Things most people know about European languages  – One – Spanish for ‘beer’ is ‘cerveza’. Two – English is not in the same language family as French and Spanish. When looking at other European words for beer it is appa[…]

The fact that this intriguing (and personally flattering!) rockcritics.com “symposium on music blogging” has slipped out with so little discussion is itself some kind of proof of its central, slightly mournful hypothesis – that the[…]

Radio 1 have an album of cover versions out for their 40th anniversary. The gimmick is that a top pop act of today covers a song from each of the forty years the station has been going.
Stylus Magazine’s “Singles Jukebox” blog is re[…]