Reactions to my
soul questions
: josh blog goes off on a sort-of-tangent to what I was talking about and looks at some of the underlying issues involving ‘tendencies’ in criticism with typical intelligence. I think he’s right in t[…]

California Preening: “He will vilify his record company. ‘They’re all bean counters,’ he snaps. ‘They call my music product: it’s art. They call me a rock star when I’d rather be described as a musician.&#821[…]

EMINEM – “Kim” (MP3)
Eminem is conceivably the most commercially lucrative purveyor of the consciously, proudly ugly in pop music ever. This track could conceivably be to him what “Hippopotamomus” was to Nick Currie &[…]

friday matinee: good heavens, another weblog about music? But what kind of music, I hear you cry? Could it be….INDIE ROCK?! Why yes, how did you guess?
Joking aside, Friday Matinee is honest and also has a great clean design (weblogger speak al[…]

Credit where due: that 20 musicians thing comes courtesy of Catherine at pita 2000.[…]

MEL C feat. LEFT-EYE – “Never Be The Same Again”
Now any fool knows that these days it’s coolest for musicians to be eclectic and cross genre boundaries and all that, so how come when a big bad pop star like Mel C tries everyo[…]

DUEL! – goodness me, I almost forgot, a new Duel! is up. Oasis versus the Smashing Pumpkins – this will be up until Monday morning.[…]

MILES DAVIS – Kind of Blue
The reason for this album’s eternal appeal lies in its emotional tone. Once its quietism was the perfect reflection of the spiritual Emptiness of the Eisenhower era; now its boredom, nostalgia and scarcely conce[…]

Beating a retreat: pretty dreadful review of the new Eminem album from the Guardian again, which Greg requested as a link. Caroline Sullivan knows Eminem’s motives better than he does himself, naturally.[…]

The Rap Trap: interview with Dr.Dre, sadly minus the picture that made him look like a BIG TUBBY TEDDY BEAR. It starts off like it’s going to be something really interesting, and then it gets sidetracked into a tell-the-Guardian-readers-about-D[…]