The Great Tune Robbery – in which the NME reports the “news” that the chords to Travis’ “Writing To Reach You” are the same as the chords to “Wonderwall”. This comes as no surprise to anyone who’s[…]

Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP: you will roll your eyes when you read the review, and if you wish to laugh like a dog when you see the accompanying photo, I cannot stop you. Ken Tucker drops in a Genet reference to show he’s a clever guy, then[…]

Star guests on first Go-Betweens album for 12 years: (link via Fred, who’s been keeping the music blog flame alive during my relative inactivity). Well, on the one hand it’s a new Go-Betweens album. On the other hand it’s a new Go-B[…]

For a Rock Aesthetic “It is quite pathetic to read essay by Wilfred Mellers, Ned Rorem or Tony Palmer concerned with comparing the Lennon-McCartney songbook to Schubert or Poulenc, as if work in the genre of ‘song’ could have any ae[…]

CV of CV: dry but informative Caetano Veloso biography, from the altogether more colourful Caravan Music, a one-stop shop for Brazilian music.[…]

Face it, every single note of music ever committed to paper, vinyl, CD, zeroes and ones sucks harder than Linda Lovelace in a sucking competition with a black hole. There is absolutely nothing going for music. It just plain sucks.
“Wait a minut[…]

OH FOR GOD’S SAKE…
You go away for one weekend and this awaits you when you get back. No, no and a million times no, Sisqo’s “Thong Song” is NOT the best song of the year, you wretched bunch of perverts. He’s a rep[…]

Many people have mentioned to me over the last couple of weeks that some of my reasons for disliking particular strands of popular music are tenuous at best. I will accept this criticism on the chin, something Belle & Sebastian could never do. Wh[…]

So, why haven’t you been updating all day, Tom? Well, O Reader, that’s because I’ve been editing the The Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group, June 2000, the definitive overview of the first six months of Y2K in pop. It rules &#8211[…]

DUEL! – ROUND 2: the server is back and so is Duel! Stereophonics vs Kravitz – nasty.
Lack of promised updates because I’ve been a) a bit poorly, b) working on the focus group.[…]