GRACE JONES – “Slave To The Rhythm” (12″)
“Ladies and Gentlemen….” What Eighties pop had more than anything before or since is a sense of scale. Long tracks previously tended to be messy jams, or primitivist […]

I want my money back – a cry you will rarely hear me say in a pub. Nevertheless I was piqued into an argument with a bar manager last night in that usual battle of the little man versus the large corporation. Not strictly a pub, I was drinking […]

SLIMM CUTTA CALHOUN – “It’s OK”
Another day, another magnificent hip-hop single. It’s almost easy to take this year’s embarrassment of riches for granted: things are so good right now that you can almost lie back a[…]

Ally reviews a new Sarah Cracknell EP, so I thought I’d point out that Cracknell’s Saint Etienne bandmates have co-written most of the songs on the new Shampoo CD. Now, I’m not going to buy it any more than you are, but there is a c[…]

It’s that time of year again: Son Of The Son Of The Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group is almost upon us (well, about a month away) and this time so as to avoid missing out any really really obvious records I’m asking for nominations in[…]

Arts: Tim Cumming on Miles Davis: NYLPM’s descent into the gutter continues. No, no, it doesn’t: this is an overview of Davis’ electric period – nothing new precisely but it’s well done. If you own the records this&#8217[…]