Fluffy Dub! Reasons to love Kelis’ “Trick Me”.
1/ Dancehall borrowings in R&B are a wonderful thing but lifting your groove from pop-reggae is more unusual and – yay! – more fun too.
2/ Kelis’ delivery of th[…]

The Breakfast Club Night can be counted a success, I reckon. We had a devil of a time getting the decks sorted out but once that was out of the way everyone had a good time. The venue – The Chapel in Islington – is a good one, just the ri[…]

One of the most enjoyable English lessons of my youth was watching Joe Macbeth, over two legs. Perhaps the teacher thought that the updating to a gangster milieu would make the complexities of the Scottish play more relevant to his rabble of fourteen[…]

wive$watch:
kyle takes up bareknuckle boxing and noah is doing rent boys YAY – except not: i so wish this was actually not like swimming through nearly dry fishbone glue, cz it cd be fast and funny
i know it fits the hyperwealthy milieu&#8217[…]

My boyfriend and I have been obsessing over Luomo. A glorious mixture of deep house and microhouse that in a way reminds me of The Culture Club and, uh, Indian food. What I love best about music and food is when the different elements seem to blend a[…]

Is a history of pop desirable? – is of course quite another question…[…]

Histories Of Pop Music: I started this thread as an oblique way of asking whether a history of pop music is even possible. I think it is possible, though fraught with difficulty – for one thing I have no idea where it would start. When were the[…]

If television has taught us anything, it is not surely this: “Spiders revolt and terrify us”
Shape up Channel 5, I hope you are not going dumb on me all of a sudden![…]

At the last Club Freaky Trigger I played my Nuclear Doomsday set, a collection of atomic tat that drew heavily on a bunch of 40s and 50s MP3s I’d scarfed off a sharing site a year or two before. Now I have taken the chance to make an honest fil[…]

Bunk Bed Boys: you get the feeling the BBC don’t care for it too much. For the winner of their BBC talent sitcom writing contest you would think they would be trumping their new discovery. Instead they punt it out at 11:30pm on a Monday night, […]