The ever-wonderful Mired on the Napster/Metallica thing (thanks Mike).[…]

Dancing About Architecture is a year old and I still haven’t got round to writing the piece I promised them. Bad me. Anyway, this issue has a review of The Coup and some words about Ian Dury.[…]

MORRISSEY – “Bengali In Platforms” (from the album Viva Hate)
A link to my piece on Morrissey was published on a big Moz website, and it garnered much praise but also caused a bit of controversy. This ‘review’ is my repl[…]

English suburbs and small towns have a hard time of it in pop: their main contribution is as places to leave, bleak regions which the likes of Siouxsie or Brett Anderson must break free of in order to fulfil their pop destiny. English pop shows its A[…]

BLACK BOX RECORDER – Brutality (from CD single The Facts of Life, Nude Records)
Chris Morris references are, I admit, unhealthily recurrent in my contributions here. But the calm, polite, cut-glass tones of Sarah Nixey intoning such calm, gent[…]

HUNDRED STRONG feat ASPECTS – Paranoia
HUNDRED STRONG feat GRANDMASTER GARNER & BEANZ OBE – Prayer
HUNDRED STRONG feat OBSCURE DISORDER & A-TRAK – Superior Raps
HUNDRED STRONG feat ASPECTS – Transcontinental
(all fro[…]

CHEAP TRICK – “I Want You To Want Me” (from the LP In Color)
ORANGE JUICE – “Consolation Prize” (from the LP You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever)
Cheap Trick’s crunchy, brainy stadium-powerpop and Orange J[…]

Meet Sen. Kerrey, MP3 Pirate?: from Wired.[…]

Kool Keith is fucking crazy: review of Keith live in New York at Mired.[…]

BOBBY – “Dogeared” (MP3)
Too good to be true, really. Somebody comes to Freaky Trigger via doing an AltaVista search on “clever music”. They chat to me via HumanClick. Not so promising since I only like Dumb Music, hur h[…]