PAUL BEARER AND THE HEARSEMEN – “I’ve Been Thinking” (MP3)
THE STANDELLS – “Dirty Water” (MP3)
Yes, I admit it, my own greed undid me: while attempting to swap a CD-R’s worth of hooky MP3s from work to […]

It’s a weblog all about Britney. Um, yeah![…]

A nice, clear, enthusiastic guide to New Zealand and Japanese Psychedelic Noise, which promises an MP3 of Acid Mothers Temple (hooray!) but my connection is too slow to check that out today.[…]

Another review of last year’s magnificent Position Normal record.[…]

BLACK BOX RECORDER – “The Facts Of Life” (CD Single, released 10/4/00)
Luke Haines is a fantastic example of what happens when musicians get room to develop. Play the first couple of Auteurs albums now – remembering that at th[…]

LAURENZ – Forever Comes (MP3)
This is a strange one. From Cologne, referencing Momus, Smog and Gastr del Sol. Deliberately tinny drum machine, slightly cheesy arrangement, vocals trying not to sound mainstream-romantic beneath a sensitive-ind[…]

SUPER HUMAN POWERS – West Evil Rhymes (MP3)
This is just about the most brutalist pop extant. The beat hunches and thrusts forward, the squeals (like the Bomb Squad sampling the sound of tyres on ice) lurch around, the emceeing hits you, aggr[…]

LEWIS PARKER – “The Variations” (from the album “Word Lab”)
Is Lewis Parker the most interesting hip-hop artist ever brought forward in the UK? He’s certainly the least predictable and the least stereotypical in h[…]

MOLOKO – “The Time Is Now” (CD single)
You can sense something from the first 15 seconds. An arrangement of acoustic guitar which vaguely recalls Steve Harley’s “Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)”, of all things[…]