Several days later – although in the grip of Armadillo Fever you lose all track of time – and I can move my hands and eyes well enough to type out my long-promised entry on Jeremy Beadle. Long-promised I say, not long-awaited. Anyway, app[…]

Several days later – although in the grip of Armadillo Fever you lose all track of time – and I can move my hands and eyes well enough to type out my long-promised entry on Jeremy Beadle. Long-promised I say, not long-awaited. Anyway, app[…]

More Holler superficiality – but if you cannot be superficial about pop music then what can you be? I find it most interesting that while ver Spices are back together at the moment, that Melanie’s B & C’s solo careers still see[…]

A few sort of superficial observations on the new-look Spice Girls, formulated after one watching of “Holler” or “Hotter” or “Higher” or whatever it’s called:

The song really is not very good. Not at all. Bl[…]

Maybe I’ve been nostalgically primed: I’m home for the holidays (well, the World Series days, anyway) and the only person up this late, just like I was that night that I first heard the riff segue out of “Son of Mustang Ford”&[…]

Frankie Crocker died over the weekend, and I can’t find a decent linkable obit for the coolest DJ ever to grace this vale of tears. Pathetic.[…]

After all the nasty things I’ve said about Rolling Stone, they have to go and run this.[…]

POP-EYE U.S. 10/24
hi-ho, and welcome to what may be, could be, very likely will be a regular feature contributed by yours truly as a counterpart to tom’s synopsis of the u.k. singles chart. here in america, there’s less turnover —[…]

Today’s forum question: otherwise cool bands ruined by their irritating fans? (With thanks to Kathleen)
Sharp-eyed readers will also notice that I am a hooer and have inserted BlogHop rating buttons in the right-hand column. I know it’s v[…]

Uncharactistically Joshlike thoughts strike me this morning while listening to Karenina, Charlemagne Palestine’s voice-and-harmonium tribute to his dead black labrador. The main characteristic of a piece of recorded music is that we can listen […]