Oval: Ovalprocess: Pitchfork Review “Try listening to Brian Eno’s Music for Airports in choppy RealAudio. Hear that? Digital clicks, random bursts of static, and underwater compression swim over icy electronic drones, numbing your mind in[…]

You want to know an overrated record? I’ll show you an overrated record – John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band, an embarrassing forty-minute therapy session paid for first of all by the mugs at his record company and secondly by punters f[…]

Uberzone’s sound – dry-tinder breaks and acid sizzle – is hot weather music. More accurately, it’s music for places where nothing but heat matters, great open desert places where you don’t even need to shimmy, ’cau[…]

DUEL! – ROUND 2 – the final round 2 conflict, between Richard Ashcroft and the Manic Street Preachers.[…]

The Spice Girls (whose official site is frankly shoddy) have unilaterally declared the 1st July Girl Power Day. But why? I hear you ask. What momentous occasion does that day mark? Well. The 1st July marks the fourth anniversary of the release of &#8[…]

The miscredited MP3 problem not only leads to ignominy for Freaky Trigger, but (far more importantly) leads to extreme annoyance for me. Perhaps Napster should have a rule whereby any incomplete songs should be removed from the owner’s shared f[…]

It’s a concept album about the Great War which is better than The Final Cut: you couldn’t have dreamed of such a thing but hey, Piano Magic have pulled it off with Artist’s Rifles, or so sez Tim. By an astounding synchronicity I bou[…]

Now I’ve no idea why anyone would want to be possessed by John Lennon. He had appalling taste in glasses for one (have you ever tried to read with glasses like that – its like watching a television inside a washing machine). He wrote Imag[…]

An unforeseen problem with the hot new MP3 tradin’ technology is that a spelling mistake on one MP3 file can rapidly spread around the whole net. Hence the error Greg points out – my bootleg copy of “Thong Song” is proudly cre[…]

The English Motorway System: Thoughts on Luke Haines: “Haines is the sort of songwriter you need in any country” – a new piece on Robin Carmody’s Elidor site, an interesting look at Haines’ work with the Auteurs and Blac[…]