Yahoo! UK & Ireland Picks of the Week: FT doesn’t usually trigger its own trumpet samples, but on this occasion comment is perhaps called for: We Rock. Who’d have thought Yahoo! UK was so poor that a crumpled tenner would suffice?[…]

THE CHARLATANS – BAGGY OF SHITE
Or – for our American cousins – The Charlatans UK, because for some unknown reason there is another band out there who thought that having a name which suggested they were only superficially any good […]

The Pokemon Phenomenon 
This piece was going to be an unabashed paean to Pokemania, explaining what a cracking game it was and how the mass tweener hysteria which greets every fresh Pokegame, cardset, pillow-case, or doily was a good thing inasm[…]

Misfit City‘s second issue has kicked off. MC have this strange way of organising their updates into issues, but I’m not complaining – expect intelligent, finely-written reviews of obscure British acts, often with a progressive or e[…]

So Many Channels, So Few Alternatives: article on the decline of alternative radio (in Cleveland at least). One commentator nails the obvious cause – when alternative music got onto radio in the first place it locked itself into the fashion-cyc[…]

BIRTH – Found A Way Out
In MacDonald’s, Robbie Williams’ “Angels” is playing. And a lively young mum is talking to her child, who looks about four or five: she starts singing along to Robbie. “This is such a cracki[…]

Is it only me that actually thinks the Crawley Love Parade sounds like quite a good idea? That playlist is good and if Altern8 re-formed I’d be there like a Meatloaf out of hell.[…]

My Science Project took down the Nu Generation track! Yay! But then ranks it in the top 3 pop singles of the year! Nay! And then says it samples Aretha Franklin! Nay, nay, nay![…]