Know fear! It’s the indie index, an opportunity for indie fans to get acquainted, get together, and, frankly, get it on. My favourite bit of this – which is actually quite a good idea if you’re into, well, indie music – is whe[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 5
BRIDGET ST JOHN – “Ask Me No Questions” (from the album Ask Me No Questions)
Eight-minute hypno-folk, repetitive and heavily sedated: it’s incredibly fragile and pretty, and there’s an at[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 4
CURRENT 93 – “Hourglass (For Diana)” (from the compilation Calling For Vanished Faces)
Current 93’s music’s been described as “Death Folk”: bang on. “Hourglass” is[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 3
JULIAN COPE – “Reynard The Fox” (from the album Fried)
Simply put, “Reynard The Fox” is a foxhunting protest song which turns into a Christ allegory, then into a vision of rural middle En[…]

Momus is planning to compile and curate the ‘electro-epic’ NY scene, in the same way apparently as Brian Eno did with No New York, which thanks to the magic of MP3 I finally got to hear (review to follow: it’s, well, it’s&#823[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 2
THE FALL – “Leave The Capital”(from the mini-album Slates)
Everything The Fall recorded in those days stank of England, an England unmasked, the country as it would look if you threw paint-stripper o[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 1
ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION – “Real Great Britain” (from the album Community Music)
And no, they can’t take a joke. Racist fucksticks at Rolling Stone reducing Asians to curry waiter stereotypes just […]

RADIOHEAD – “Airbag” (oh look, you know where it’s from)
And so to Josh. Yes, that is a Radiohead song in my Top Ten. Yes, I do like it, certainly much more than anything else on OK Computer. The reasons I enjoy it, I think, m[…]

Let’s try again: blogger just ate a massive post where I discussed Fred‘s excellent commentary on the English Tape. In summary:
1. Tape not a summation of what it is to be English, but of how pop has approached the qn.
2. Side 1 is the Q-[…]

Title For Your Purity Test: “a new culture that seems to have exploded in the recent years” – lazy semi-literate tat, jealous of youth, same old jokes since 1992, etc. I’m just annoyed because I only got 13% or so, which isn&#[…]