I’d guessed that former members of Kula Shaker had fallen low, but even so I was astonished when I got into work this morning and was told by my boss that an ex-Kula had just been interviewed for a job here. No idea who it is yet (it’s no[…]

Congratulations to kitschbitch for getting a mention in the CMJ and all, but reading their article on weblogs, with the footer “New Music” at the bottom, I can’t help but feel that they could have tried a little harder to find some […]

TEENAGE FANCLUB
Oh, the irony! You’re old men and you have no fans.
Anyway, Teenage Fanclub shot to non-fame sounding like Big Star played by apes: the public’s tolerance of this carnivalesque novelty was short-lived indeed, though the d[…]

“What does ‘back door man’ mean? asks Nanette? Well, yes, on the face of things it means anal sex. But it’s also a time-honoured metaphor for cheating – wanting to be “your back door man” means wanting to hav[…]

digital music weblog: of the several weblogs that have sprung up documenting the reluctant evolution of the recording industry, this is probably the best, with incisive summaries of relevant, well-chosen links.[…]

A Pitchfork Review of the Cale/Conrad/etc. release which we’ve been going on about so much here. A byline I don’t recognise, so probably the work of a new reviewer, one making a break with P-fork tradition by having the first two paragrap[…]

josh quotes this from a rec.music.classical thread:
Let’s do a thought experiment. You have sixty seconds in which to choose the woman with whom you will share the rest of your life and fortune. You must choose between two equally beautiful wom[…]

TWO MORE SONGS ABOUT WAR
To continue this freewheeling mindset which, once it has been stumbled upon is nagging like a horse, there are a couple of songs about War I would like to mention in passing. One is routinely noted as one of the worse songs o[…]

Here’s a comment from Sundar Subramanian about the Cale/Conrad/MacLise/Young/Zazeela Day Of Niagara release, which I was raving about last week.:
“as a big fan of new york minimalism i was surprised that you seem to have got way more out […]

THE CLASH – White Man (In Hammersmith Palais)
I don’t like the Clash very much. You can probably guess why: Strummer’s prolier-than-thou bark, all that keep-it-real stuff, their very incarnation of the no/sell-out discourse that kee[…]