Spinning records: frothy Salon piece on Bush and Gore’s use of pop music in their campaigns, included mostly because it’s the first substantial music article Salon have run all week, and it’s in the Politics section! Salon’s A[…]

We know what you played this summer: assorted pop stars and other musical bods pick their favourite tunes (and choons) of the Summer. Daphne And Celeste have the best taste.[…]

Kid A: “Dear Sir, please cancel my subscription to Freaky Trigger forthwith. First you review Stephin Merritt’s new record unfavourably and now you give a lukewarm but reasonably charitable review to an album by Radiohead??? What is your […]

Radiohead – Kid A 
I’ve enjoyed Kid A most when the office is empty and it’s just me and the striplights and the screen, too late in the evening. At quiet times like those I’ve been only too happy to indulge it – in fact I’ve found i[…]

SCOOBY DOOBY DOO
What do you answer when someone asks you what your favourite Kraftwerk album is, then? If you’re like me you say, “None of them”. If you’re like most people you’d say Computer World (1981) or Trans-Europ[…]

HE’S NOT JUST DRAWN BADLY
As loathe as I am to rise to the bait of something as half arsed and uninformed as the Technics Mercury Music Prize (I mean, the prize is named after a company that no longer exists) I cannot let this Badly Drawn Boy n[…]

KRAFTWERK
Anyone who cycles is a bastard. You have your pavements, for the use of the foot, and you have your roads, for the use of the car. Neither fish nor fowl, the bicycle exists solely to annoy pedestrians and motorists alike, to let middle-aged[…]

Western Homes returns (sort of).[…]

The Magnetic Fields at missprint.org: here are photos of the MF gig I went to, seeing as I dont have time for anything more discursive today, plus everything is going crazy ape outside with a fuel blockade. Anyway, this comes from Starry Vs The Baddi[…]

Go-Betweens: The Friends of Rachel Worth: Pitchfork Review: and another review, from Meg Zamula, one of Pitchfork’s unsung but consistently good new writers. She even passes the Cobain/Verlaine test.[…]