Promo Napster Horror: “when records begin to show up a month ahead of their release dates, entire marketing campaigns can be thrown off track”. Gasp! Sob! The article (found via Josh Blog) also suggests that the Radiohead album has found […]

MC Hawking’s Crib: kind of amusing.[…]

Collective weblog Metafilter has a go at teen pop. Whenever I start feeling that FT is pointless, unoriginal and samey, it’s nice to have a read of stuff like this to remind myself how comparatively fucked most musical commentary is.[…]

Bloody Hell, It’s Serge Gainsbourg!: oh, those seductive Frenchmen. (via Scrubbles).[…]

Kill Indie Scum: Ned Raggett rants on indie iconography and the Stephin Merritt Messiah Complex.[…]

A review of The Friends Of Rachel Worth from what my correspondent calls “one of Australia’s more irritating music publications”. It’s already obvious that all the reviews are going to quote that one horrible Cobain/Verlaine l[…]

Drawer B reviews The Clientele: back to more conventionally music-related linking, this is yet another example of a music writer floundering around trying to write about the Clientele. He doesn’t say anything particularly bad, but nothing parti[…]

While I think it’s a very good idea for Tom@plasticbag to construct a fictional love life for himself, it might help if it wasn’t so blatantly centered around some sick Momus fantasy.[…]

I’ll poke my head above the parapet then – in a response to Tom’s suggestion below that this team can get bigger I have finally decided to join in this alternative to pub rambling. If you don’t know me I am a regular drinking […]

Tangents wastes ten minutes gloriously with the Everett True Diaries. When I was little I rather wanted to be a music journalist: here’s yet more compelling evidence that not trying was quite a good move. Interesting reading for a certain type […]