WOODBINE – Tricity Tiara (CD Single, 2000)
The Woodbine sleeve is underweight and diffident, a cut off brown-and-white drawing and some thin brown-on-burnt-orange lettering: so indie that one crassly-placed Tower Records sticker could – d[…]

Please, play something else: anti-canonical sentiment from the classical world.[…]

What’re You Listening For? asks Tangents, with an article drawing the confounding and intriguing link between Broadcast and Pentangle – not something that occurred to me when I walked bored out of a Broadcast performance last year, but th[…]

Threatster: hooray! Thanks Chris & Ned.[…]

ALEX REECE – Pulp Fiction 2000
It starts with bass. The deepest, warmest bass you’ve ever heard, like swimming in amniotic fluid while outside the womb earthquakes level the city. The crowd cheer instantly, despite the lack of real change[…]

Josh gives me a telling-off for calling Frank Zappa “the Bloodhound Gang with a PhD”, and I plead guilty as charged. To be honest, I’d hardly know – every bit of Zappa I’ve heard, from his groundbreaking work with the Mo[…]

Just look at that sound: It’s David Toop, and he’s got an art installation. Russolo, laptops, Ryoji Ikeda, and so on.[…]

Robert Moog: it’s a bumper day for Salon articles. Profile/primer on the synthesiser inventor.[…]

Hail, Metallica!: “For over half a century rock ‘n’ roll music has acted as a kind of umbrella under which the noblest elements of society have gathered. Today, the very word “rock” is a synonym for everything that&#8217[…]

XTC – “Playground”
THE WEDDING PRESENT – “Sports Car (Acoustic)” (From the Cooking Vinyl compilation ‘Delicatessen Two’)
I bought the Delicatessen Two compilation because it had a new XTC track on it, t[…]