CHEAP TRICK – “I Want You To Want Me” (from the LP In Color)
ORANGE JUICE – “Consolation Prize” (from the LP You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever)
Cheap Trick’s crunchy, brainy stadium-powerpop and Orange J[…]

Meet Sen. Kerrey, MP3 Pirate?: from Wired.[…]

Kool Keith is fucking crazy: review of Keith live in New York at Mired.[…]

BOBBY – “Dogeared” (MP3)
Too good to be true, really. Somebody comes to Freaky Trigger via doing an AltaVista search on “clever music”. They chat to me via HumanClick. Not so promising since I only like Dumb Music, hur h[…]

The sound of violence: also from The Guardian. The problem here is that I don’t buy this idea of violent images ‘subverting’ pop, because it assumes that the visuals dominate the music, when I’d say the relationship, especiall[…]

Spirit of ’69: Guardian pop critic Tom Cox has an absolute right to like boring music, but why does he have to be so defensive about it?[…]

Oi! GERI!. No! One thing and one thing only makes this the worst design idea I’ve ever seen on a music site. Click on the ‘natural look’ Geri picture and you too will learn the true meaning of Pop.[…]

And a much more concise post: a recommendation of Michael Bracewell’s “England Is Mine”, which fits in rather well with the theme for the current issue of Freaky Trigger.[…]

FIJI – “The Glue Hotel Tapes” (Impresario Records mini album)
FIJI – “4-Track Jesus” (b-side to “Pillshop” 7″ single)
I’ll always have a soft spot for Jamie Hince. As a member of indie also-[…]

Hope They Die Before I Get Old: veteran rock critics no longer good shocker. Entirely true, though would be more convincing if not written by the reliably plodding Jim DeRogatis.[…]