It’s Tricky! He’s a mentalist!: interview with Mr. Thaws which contains much scary ranting, a few sensible bits, and one useful nugget of information, to wit that “Divine Comedy”, his most vicious 90s record, is seeing ‘[…]

A tale of two rock critics: this is a good one. On the one hand you have Cameron Crowe, he of first rock-crit film biopic fame and youngest-staffer on Rolling Stone notoriety, telling the world about how absolutely cool it was to be hangin’ wit[…]

Friday, 20th October, 18:00
“I have no interest in the new single by Daft Punk.”
Saturday, 21st October, 18:00
“Well, I was wrong.”
The moment comes just over two minutes in.
“One More Time” kicks off as typical Da[…]

The Blue Posts: No not that Blue Posts but this Blue Posts. See that’s the problem with yer Blue Posts, there are so damn many of them in what is pretty much a five hundred yard distance. This UK Blogmeet which I have the privilige of being in […]

The Clientele – Suburban Light
My favourite record of 2000 sounds like it fell through a hole in 1968, and waits in the here and now shyly and patiently, hoping people will notice it. Actually it crackles with a sensibility from still further b[…]

PULP – “The Night That Minnie Tymperly Died” (live MP3)
Jarvis Cocker’s songs spell out patterns of behaviour, return time and again to themes which streak through his writing like mold in cheese. Latterly, exhaustion and rede[…]

Is he hot or not?[…]

Julie London, RIP[…]

The mark of a good review is that it forces me to read to the end even when I have no wish whatsoever to hear the album. For example: motion’s review of Photek’s Solaris – balanced, intriguing, finely written. Motion, in fact, are r[…]

Why I don’t want to be a ‘real’ rock critic, part million: via catherine.
Oh, and NME.com has redesigned and now looks….garish. But, good news! You need no longer wade through non-pieces on arsey Coldplay dates when you visit,[…]