Rock ‘n’ Rape: an Utne Reader writer with a quick overview of rock’s ‘new misogyny’, post-Woodstock ’99. Courtney Love has probably the most interesting things to say. Does liking Eminem and not liking Sarah MacLac[…]

Dancing About Architecture focusses on Lester Bangs, who was a famous rock critic, who is dead, who has had a biography written about him. Cue much flouncing and muttering about the parlous state of the rockcrit art (not from DAA, to their credit, th[…]

The Problem With Music: Josh sent me (why me specifically, apart from that I’m a major label pimp and all?) to this Steve Albini rant, which appeared in slightly different form in an APA I’m in, several years ago. Indeed, lots of the APA […]

EMINEM – Our House, Green and Gold, The Showdown (all MP3)
The thing I like best about Eminem is (cue universal amazement that I can say such a thing) the fact that he’s true to himself. He could very easily pretend that he has the insta[…]

“Time and Curiosity: Journey to the Outside”: I’m uncomfortable with ‘outsider art’ because so much of the ‘appreciation’ of it boils down to mean-spirited kitschery. And yet obviously there are a lot of peop[…]

TINY TIM – “Ever Since You Told Me That You Loved Me (I’m A Nut)”
I can’t take Current 93’s own music in more than short bursts, but I can hardly think of a musician I’d rather have make me a compilation tape[…]

Virgin vixens – a field guide: “it might be exhilarating to under-10s and to paedophiles who recently voted Spears the “girl you’d most like to see in a porn movie”, but there’s little of interest to anyone else&#8[…]

Plug and play: “I can’t turn on the TV without hearing Moby. I just go ker-ching, it’s Moby yet again…” – John McGrath, head of Mute Publishing. Interesting article on the bald, safe one’s current ubiquity. A[…]

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – “The State I Am In” (MP3)
Oh Heaven help me, I like Belle And Sebastian.
To fill you in: I heard Belle And Sebastian three years ago (the If You’re Feeling Sinister album) and disliked them. I disliked t[…]

urbansounds >: much as I hate the trendy use of the word ‘urban’ to refer to electronic music this is a gorgeously designed site with some very interesting looking features on a ‘minimalism’ theme. Ignore the music review sect[…]