The Popbitch Message Board: Popbitch itself is entertaining enough, a weekly rolling London Babylon for the chartpop scene. But the Message Board takes things considerably further – how much is true? Is any? Is it all? Wash your hands after fol[…]

RareMusic on the Internet: Go. Play. Learn. Essential hipster education in smooth-rolling Flash-driven sound. My initial findings: the breaks on all those really old (pre-Cambrian school) hip-hop recordings sound like they were recorded in a graveyar[…]

Enough!: Burchill goes for Madonna’s jugular. “Music is a bad handshake of a record: limp, clinging, hard to shake off and leaving one with a distinct feeling of having been soiled by contact with a mediocrity so extreme it fair takes the[…]

The History of House: sprawling in its coverage, intelligent and thorough in its internal links, and with a superb range of external links too….this is one excellent site. Follows House from the late 70s to the present, and puts this still much[…]

Who would have thought that my temporary move to Surrey would result in rich local music news links? From sleepy (and horrible) Redhill comes the world’s fattest boy band. Ho ho ho.[…]

Gareth L. leaps to the defence of Adorable. Provoked, apparently, by me, so I should say that all I remember about them was that bloke in his white suit, and “Sunshine Smile”, which Gareth rightly calls ‘insipid’. I don’[…]

Pitchfork reviews Loren Mazzacane-Connors: I only have one solo Connors album (9th Avenue), and one of his fine collaborations with Keiji Haino, but both discs get a fair bit of play from me still. Al Shipley writes an interesting review, though as w[…]

The Heavenly Jukebox: via everyone (well, Mike initially). Pretty much the ultimate Napster/copyright.MP3s article. Fine stuff.[…]

New stuff on Surface Vs Depth: Some reviews wherein Gareth preaches the truth: “Continuing to prove that, for now at least, the ‘mainstream’ is way ahead of the ‘underground’ in terms of innovation and experimentation as[…]

We used to have a poster of Billie on our wall at work in which she would explain, using crudely blue-tacked speech bubbles, the intricacies of weighting, sampling and pricing to curious market research executives. This kind of thing appears to be a […]