I’d previously stated that I like three things about “Born To Make You Happy”: its beat-based balladry, Britney’s unusually expressive vocals and that key change. I still like these things, but it’s becoming increasingly[…]

My Science Project: it’s another music blog! Rejoice! I will be pillaging some of these links soon enough.[…]

Now that’s what I call white noise: now that’s what I call faff, as the Guardian’s redesign has made it really difficult to find the odd little bits of G2. Anyway, here’s Jonathan Romney, probably the best arts columnist in Br[…]

The suspicion is that this is a pisstake but it doesn’t work either way – EastWesterly Review – Passivity & Victimhood in Britney Spears’ “. . . Baby, One More Time”. The main reason I’m blogging it is b[…]

The ever-wonderful Mired on the Napster/Metallica thing (thanks Mike).[…]

Dancing About Architecture is a year old and I still haven’t got round to writing the piece I promised them. Bad me. Anyway, this issue has a review of The Coup and some words about Ian Dury.[…]

MORRISSEY – “Bengali In Platforms” (from the album Viva Hate)
A link to my piece on Morrissey was published on a big Moz website, and it garnered much praise but also caused a bit of controversy. This ‘review’ is my repl[…]

English suburbs and small towns have a hard time of it in pop: their main contribution is as places to leave, bleak regions which the likes of Siouxsie or Brett Anderson must break free of in order to fulfil their pop destiny. English pop shows its A[…]

BLACK BOX RECORDER – Brutality (from CD single The Facts of Life, Nude Records)
Chris Morris references are, I admit, unhealthily recurrent in my contributions here. But the calm, polite, cut-glass tones of Sarah Nixey intoning such calm, gent[…]

HUNDRED STRONG feat ASPECTS – Paranoia
HUNDRED STRONG feat GRANDMASTER GARNER & BEANZ OBE – Prayer
HUNDRED STRONG feat OBSCURE DISORDER & A-TRAK – Superior Raps
HUNDRED STRONG feat ASPECTS – Transcontinental
(all fro[…]