SUPER HUMAN POWERS – Intellectual Extra Terrestrials (MP3)
I know I’ve talked at length about their “West Evil Rhymes” (and rightly so, a mutation of Geography and Time even Momus might have dismissed as absurd, incongrous an[…]

If you skim over the market boosterism at the end, this old article from Reason magazine is pretty much required reading for anyone interested in pop, irony, elitism, fake-fakeness, etc., themes not entirely absent from Freaky Trigger recently.[…]

YOROKU SAKI – Tech-Scientific (Alpha Version) / Goodtimes (Demo Version) (MP3s)
Maybe it was the reference to the predictions in George Orwell’s 1984, and their historical presience, that attracted me first (but then it almost inevitably […]

Rock & Roll is Dead quoth dreadful article on local US paper’s website. Boo hoo. What the article is saying is that the thing called ‘rock and roll’ which used to sell a lot of records (and hence make rock writers’ lives […]

Let me be the first to state the obvious: that is the worst title for a pop single ever. It brings to mind crapping-toddler birthday card designs in its tumourous cuteness, and when you imagine it sung you imagine it accompanied by a winsome giggle-g[…]

“Inspired by no-one / Other groups bore us / How can you say we sound like Frazier Chorus?” is perhaps my favourite Half Man Half Biscuit lyric, and in hot anticipation of the English issue, wherein they may well be mentioned quite a lot,[…]

Haven’t caught up with The War Against Silence in a while. A recent blockbuster includes a review of the new Trembling Blue Stars album and some funny stuff about his first ever computer.[…]

So here we have Fly Online: it looks way gorgeous and cutting-edgey, and when you get in it talks about bucking the mainstream and how there are still skiploads of underground visionaries out there waiting to be discovered, and generally it makes me […]

I thought about doing a similar piece for the Love Issue, and now I’ve been beaten to it: The art of the mixtape. This link swiped from jejune.net.[…]

The Cedar Room is seven-and-a-half minutes long. Why? Maybe Doves would answer “Because it has to be”, but that’s obviously nonsense. There’s no lyrical development, no groove to speak of, no big musical build-up, nothing exce[…]