(Finally this gets finished. I would like to apologise on behalf of us all to women readers and especially to Emma and Kate. I should probably also apologise to Magnus given the perhaps undue emphasis on his drinking frailty, but tough luck.)
The Blu[…]

THE ADVENT CALENDAR OF FILTH
5 JONA LEWIE – Stop The Cavalry
Jona Lewie looked like he’d been slapped every day of his miserable life. His hangdog face matched his awful flat voice and his awful voice was backed up with a casio your kid s[…]

(also don’t forget the requisite “boys boys boys plus obligatory sleater-kinney mention to prove that we’re ‘down with the chicks’” stance.)[…]

THE ADVENT CALENDAR OF FILTH
4: WINGS – Wonderful Christmastime
The Beatles never made a Christmas single. Unless you include those fanclub flexi’s where John Lennon does his amusing John Lennon voice and tells jokes you would only allow […]

You’llhave seen this already, probably, Pitchfork’s Top 20 of 2000. Top 20 what? Albums, obviously. Radiohead come top – sorry to spoil the surprise and all.
Actually the ‘head album is the one on this rundown which comes clos[…]

CINDERELLA – “don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone”
an argument that performance>composition:
this near-midler piano ballad perverted by tom keifer’s wounded-beast rasp. purring and whining sympathetically[…]

CB Savage, courtesy of Starry, who recommended it highly in the pub and was most certainly right to. Listen and wonder.[…]