Vote for your favourite rock critic!: currently Albini is winning, which feels like a bit of a cheat – Albini’s producer’s diaries make for hilarious reading but in terms of actual criticism he comes across as a watered-down Carducc[…]

The Top 10 Coolest People In Rock, according to Melody Maker (lifted from the best blog in the world…ever). I want to emigrate. Or die. Here they are:
Coolest
1. Nicky Wire
2. Kelly Jones
3. Fran Healy
4. Cerys Matthews
5. Dave Grohl
6. Kurt Co[…]

Forever And For Now: aptly enough, here’s Tangents come to set matters straight. “It’s like you can acknowledge the ‘importance’ of the Beatles from a rigidly linear standpoint, but it doesn’t make their records an[…]

John Lennon: Imagine: Digitally Remastered and Remixed: Pitchfork Review: Tanya! TANYA!! Are you reading this??
Cool thing about Imagine: It has “Jealous Guy” on it.
Uncool thing about Imagine: It has “Imagine” on it.[…]

Uncertain, unfair and bloodthirsty: “Many people still think of folk as a music with a very obvious agenda, i.e., political protest, singalongs for kids, etc. But “Rock-a-Bye Baby” has always been about a baby falling out of a tree […]

Ry Cooder comes to the stage, his grizzled form battered by years of scouring the planet for roots he can revive. Fingers scarred by the Zydeco wars of the early eighties he nevertheless commands a great deal of stage presence – despite the fac[…]

See the rule below vis a vis non-alphabetic double acts. As extra ammunition note that Shanks is short for Shanks Pony. Pony, in Cockney Rhyming Slang is short for Pony and Trap – which rhymes with Crap.
Bigfoot on the other hand is a mythical […]

Where is Duel?: Basically, doing Duel! of a morning was doing my head in. So from today I’m switching to putting it up in the evenings. The downside – or perhaps upside – of this is that I may, oh horror, occasionally be doing the p[…]

One of the wonders and terrors of Blogger is that it brings Usenet’s age-old ability to post in haste and repent at leisure to a webwide audience. Signal Drench Music Magazine is annoyed, and rightly, at the comment I made that the Top 100 list[…]

Sun Comes Up, It’s Wednesday Morning: well, sort of. And at the end of this trench-warfare day, two things. Firstly, I’m top of the power bloggers, which is embarrassing. And secondly, Barbelith lists his top 100 albums, which is cool. Ow[…]