Riot For Romance!: I think this is a fantastic image of Johnny Rotten, from the generally excellent Oh Messy Life. It captures the romanticism of the Pistols perfectly – or rather, the feeling that they operated in a culture where doing what th[…]

Real Life Rock Top Ten: Groovy Greil bigs up none other than Jyoti Mishra! And there are far worse things in American Psycho than “Walking On Sunshine”….[…]

Calling all teenagers! If you’re a teenager who reads Freaky Trigger, or indeed one who writes for it, and you’d like to take part in a tacky themed article thing, then please do drop me an e-mail. Thanks![…]

You’re all losers baby!: Beck doesn’t like pop music shocker. Why people making predictable music for one niche market feel the need to slam people making predictable music for another niche market continues to escape me.[…]

THE POP GROUP – 3’37” (B-Side Of She Is Beyond Good And Evil 7″)
The thing about The Pop Group is that – get this! – they weren’t a pop group. The thing about “3’37″” (best currently f[…]

SAINT ETIENNE – “Wilson” (from the Foxbase Alpha CD)
I was under express instructions not to mention this in my main article, which is a shame, because in a way “Wilson”‘s the most English (and best!) thing on the […]

Britpop In Oz: also new on Freaky Trigger is Tim Finney’s penetrating article on the Australian anglophiliac ‘scene’.[…]

A very late Happy Birthday to my friend Kate, who requested I write about Foxbase Alpha as part of the Freaky Trigger Birthday Article Scheme.[…]

The josh blog is really, really good at the moment, and I suspect this is precisely because he’s got revision he should be doing instead. I may not like the songs I’ve heard by them very much, but from the quoted interview the Dismemberme[…]

underpop e-zine – which stands I’m presuming for underground pop, and indeed most of this stuff is underground enough that I can’t vouch for it’s popness or otherwise. Still they’ve got a big singles column and for that,[…]