Boomkat fails in the method act with The Wreckoning. The surface has Moloko written over it, but then you scratch underneath and realize nothing’s THERE. So turn it over and revisit Flipside. (Gosh, I fell for that one, no?) That classique sing[…]

T.a.T.u-All The Things She Said and Not Gonna Get Us.
Live at the MTV Movie Awards.
For the male gaze to work, it requires men. The genius of tatu dyking out is that they are not directed to men, their gaze is to each other, their innocence is amusi[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER CLUB NIGHT
“Club Evening” to be fair. On Wednesday 25th June the Freaky Trigger Editorial Team will be DJing a pre-Glastonbury party at PARKER’S PLACE in Central London. There will be drinks offers and entry is FREE, […]

Now I’ve not heard the full album yet but from the tracks I have scavenged it sounds like ‘I Luv You’ (1) (fissionable bass blurts, demented rhythms, talent breaching its own barely-sketched limits) was a bit of a red herring. It&#8[…]

Tom’s Top Twelve
Sorry it’s been a while!
GIRLS ALOUD – “No Good Advice”
SEVERED HEADS – “Dead Eyes Opened”
BLACK EYED PEAS feat JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – “Where Is The Love”
THE RAPTURE &#8[…]

Casualties of a) the Reality-Pop arena vote and b) an ill-timed split return with more or less desperate dice-throws. Rarely has a No.2 hitmaker been considered as instant a failure as One True Voice — but then with Girls Aloud making the best […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Poem-Cees – PARANOIA
I put the headphones on and lean back. Jagged guitar assaults my ears and fear grips me as I hear the harrowing opening litany. THEY ARE OUT TO GET ME.
The beat kicks in. We’re in party mode, but things […]

NO GIRLS ALOUD
If we can thank Girls Aloud for anything, and I’m not sure we can, its for seeing off One True Voice. Them and the British public I feel have long since recognised that there is indeed only one true voice in this country, one voi[…]

I like this new genuine heartbroken Beck, where his bricolage and fake hipster poses can no longer protect a broken heart, and he stops being anything but real. This is supposed to be the new authenticity, we are supposed to be real, and the realness[…]

Some current lip-flapping in the UK centred on the current collapse in singles sales and the imminent doom of the charts – here’s the Guardian’s laughable contribution courtesy of Dave Lee Travis, who once shocked John Peel by admit[…]