speaking of emo, what the heck is emo anyway? does a great job of answering just that, with extensive chronology of the different styles, recommended records, and tongue-in-cheek emo fashion tips. very illuminating.[…]

native nod – tangled
more mid-90s adolescent angst, this time male and louder and played on guitars and dissonant. also one of the greatest guitar rock songs ever. beautifully pungent trebly chords are arrayed in triumphantly tragic progressi[…]

tori amos – crucify
sigh a skeleton of my own, i suppose (though maybe old r.e.m. would be more appropriate to the way tom used the term). or a ghost from my abject adolescence. or something. all i know is i heard it on the radio after not ha[…]

Garage Convert – The Observer interviews Wookie, who seems to be plugging his new album all over the place. The idea of him remixing American artists to promote the music in America brings up the fact that UK Garage is already making slight pro[…]

Adventures in Sound: very interesting looking music zine with articles and reviews ranging from Burt Bacharach to Z’Ev. I say “looking” because I don’t have time right now to give it the full checking-out it deserves. Maybe yo[…]

JOHNNY CASH – “I See A Darkness”
THE HANDSOME FAMILY – “The Dutchboy”
You might hardly notice the most important difference between Will Oldham’s reading of his “I See A Darkness” and Johnny Cash&[…]

Outkast: Stankonia – heeeeeeeeeeeere’s Robin, getting excited about the new Outkast album, something I really ought to hear myself.[…]

It’s Tricky! He’s a mentalist!: interview with Mr. Thaws which contains much scary ranting, a few sensible bits, and one useful nugget of information, to wit that “Divine Comedy”, his most vicious 90s record, is seeing ‘[…]

A tale of two rock critics: this is a good one. On the one hand you have Cameron Crowe, he of first rock-crit film biopic fame and youngest-staffer on Rolling Stone notoriety, telling the world about how absolutely cool it was to be hangin’ wit[…]