Today’s forum question: otherwise cool bands ruined by their irritating fans? (With thanks to Kathleen)
Sharp-eyed readers will also notice that I am a hooer and have inserted BlogHop rating buttons in the right-hand column. I know it’s v[…]

Uncharactistically Joshlike thoughts strike me this morning while listening to Karenina, Charlemagne Palestine’s voice-and-harmonium tribute to his dead black labrador. The main characteristic of a piece of recorded music is that we can listen […]

POP-EYE 22/10/00
Ladies and gentlemen, an honest-to-goodness Top 40 climber has made this week‘s biggest impact: Paul Gambaccini and Tim Rice, those wizened guardians of pop propriety, would be delighted. Baha Men‘s “Who Let The Dog[…]

To lose one singer may be thought to be careless… Jacqueline Abbott, Beautiful South singer has pulled out of their US tour for personal reasons. My days going to live gigs have pretty much wound up now, I’ve been crushed by the fat blok[…]

More on The Blue Posts: This time, the Rupert Street one which is pound for pound one of the best boozers in the area. Of course this is not exactly saying much. We are in the environs of Leicester Square and every spit you try out will hit a bad pub[…]

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[…]