Salon.com business | Seven days in May: Britney Spears does it again! “I’m pretty sure 12-year old girls who buy Britney will buy Eminem,” – interesting and witty report from the heart of chartland, courtesy of Salon. If Britn[…]

This is a beautiful project (now apparently defunct, alas) – somebody who actually buys all those 7″ singles you see in Rough Trade and then reviews all of them. Fascinating stuff with scanned-in covers too.[…]

DUEL!: today it’s Beth Orton vs The Charlatans. And I’ve loads of proper links’n’songs to blog later on, too.[…]

THE JOHN SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
One of the most misleading names of all time. There is no explosion whatsoever in this blandly offensive music, unless you count having your thoughts of exactly how terrible music can be exploded.
It is a music of[…]

Global Goon’s Garden: this link has itself been brutally uprooted from My Science Project. Global Goon is one of Aphex Twin’s little pals: he wants you to help make his new album. Blimey! The honour! How about…warped childish voices[…]

Migrainous Wankery: here’s an old critical kicking Salon gave to Mogwai. Truth to tell, it’s pretty lazy, but think of it also as an opportunity to weep for Salon’s elegant old layout, now sacrificed in a desperate bid to shove ever[…]

THE PIXIES
If you’re going to be tough on grunge, then you have to be tough on the causes of grunge. In the firing line, the name dropped, the reason we got into that whole damn plaid shirted mess in the first place can be squarely levelled at […]

DUEL!: today it’s Mogwai versus eels. My attempt to influence the voting yesterday was a complete, piteous, failure so I will stay silent now.[…]

In a perfect world, if a generically ironic dance-pop duo decided to make an irritating, irrelevant cover of an overrated country song, a giant hammer would descend from the heavens and smite them before the first TR-808 pattern could be programmed. […]

The Beginning Of The End: and another one bites the dust, wearied by the end of the century and the decline (yeah, yeah) of Pop. But it’s not about the musicians: it’s about the listeners. And so this is the most exciting time since 1988 […]