Epinions has revised its user agreements: I truly doubt this applies to any FT writers, but we have more than 5 contributors, (even excluding the ones who don’t really exist!) so please don’t submit reviews you’ve previously epinion[…]

NURSE WITH WOUND – “Two Shaves And A Shine” (from the LP An Awkward Pause)
Following my trashing of Doves on grounds of length, you might reasonably ask whether I’d like any long rock song. Here’s the answer. “Two […]

Songs that kill: someone notices that American Psycho is a book about pop music. Good article results.[…]

Up Jumps Da Meme: is there no escape from bloody memetics? Anyway, this is a great article about Timbaland which explains exactly why he’s good and what you should hear for proof – though it underrates Aaliyah’s awesome single-of-th[…]

38 years after the fact, and 33 years after Joe Meek’s final self-destruction, those involved with my favourite single of all time, The Tornados’ “Telstar”, seem destined to forever intrude on my life. I read in the current ed[…]

Rawkus Presents The Cleaner (mix CD, free with the May 2000 issue of Hip Hop Connection magazine, out now priced £2.99)
A few examples of the best recent outputs of Rawkus acts, mixed by arguably Britain’s greatest hip hop deejays, Tony V[…]

COMMON – The Light (from the album Like Water For Chocolate)
Greg brings up “The 6th Sense” which is the first single from the
new Common album in his last post. He mentions how it has the
intelligence for the street and the beat fo[…]

“The revolution will not be televised… The revolution is here!” Perhaps the revolution Common (n_ Sense) refers to is what’s generally seen as his big push for crossover success.
“In order to get the critical praise and […]

DMX – Bugout
Eve – Do That Shit (both from the Ruff Ryders Compilation “Ryde or Die Volume 1”)
Hot Boys – Help (from the album “Guerilla Warfare”)
One of the problems with dissing the gangsta ethos which thor[…]

I have no idea whether Pitchfork is right about Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature, because having asked for and got the record for my birthday I’ve played less than a third of it, out of a fear that it sounds exactly like Brent DiCrescenzo […]