The Best New Music Blogs
Bloggers get tired or bored or busy or run out of things to say or just vanish – it’s the nature of the game. Luckily there are plenty more being started. All these made their first post sometime this year.
The To[…]

trife hide yr eyes as the us left PICK THEIR FAVORITE LPs:
a lot of pretty nice if highly orthodox records, almost all from very long ago, with little evidence here (militant anti-rockist a.cockburn aside)* of agile or inquisitive or even listening […]

Much better news from the Football League. It now means that the proven incompetent and the still criminally challenged won’t be able to take over clubs in the Football League (look mom, no coke!). One might say it’s a good policy to fina[…]

Yippee Kai-Aye Motherfucker.
(Or if you are watching ITV: Yippee Kai-Aye Kemosabe.)
Die Hard takes its time, that is its secret. Probably the first action film to be designed directly like a videogame (with levels and end of level bad guys even), Die[…]

“singer who defied musical categories…”
but “musical categories” are of course only defined with hindsight, not in advance: a more accurate (or do i mean helpfully argumentative?) description might be “singer who […]

The Trouble With Batman. If he is the yang to the impossible to write well Superman, then it should be easy to write him. Indeed it is, because Batman – psychologically stunted insufferable know-it-all in tights is rarely the lead character in […]

he did it first miss!!
if it’s not too cheeky linking to something of mine, i just updated sparks in stone lanes with this, slightly rejigged, from the S&S A-Z of Cinema, June 1998: Y is for YOUTH[…]

Fine Ray Charles piece by Marcello. (Update – also explore and listen to Tofu Hut’s memorial post)
I don’t know Ray Charles’ work well enough; another example of the (slightly shameful if hardly unique to me) syndrome where so[…]

The Streets, by Me: enormous thanks to Mr. Matos, not only for asking me to do this but also for his stern but excellent editing when I turned out to be embarrassingly ring-rusty in the ‘writing longer pieces’ arena.[…]

The Post-TV Diaries: part 5
Something incredibly wonderful has been restored to me since television left my life: TIME. Not just in the sense that I have more of it, though I definitely do. But the whole concept. When you have TV, clock-time becomes […]