Mumbly, mildew-voiced men scratching their warty groins in ill-lit pubs, leering at women and sobbing into their drinks. Another useless cabaret entry in the Great British Parade of liver-failure chic and lowlife tourism: move on, nothing to see here[…]

I take Massive Attack to stand for just about everything that was wrong with the nineties, and not just musically. I take Protection to stand for the whole of their recorded output, as a mid point between the dull but worthy previous album, Blue Line[…]

Link not from Guardian shocker! PopJustice is back with the Slipknot Calculator! Bonus points for their mention of 2 In A Tent vs 2 In A Room, a pop puzzler which has kept us occupied in the pub for what seems like 7 out of the last 8 visits.[…]

Free lunch with the net bandits “The American book trade (which has since gobbled up ours) is founded on a century of napsterising” – another day, another MP3 musing.[…]

Metallica’s New Album is Napster-Proof: rockin’! My index and little fingers are twitching already. With lyrics of the caliber of “T3 lines they are my bane / Evil Napster I wish you never came.” (has Slorta Vileblade joined t[…]

Please be aware that, while I genuinely like some Tull stuff, I certainly don’t rate them particularly highly in the great scheme of things (their version of “The Dambusters March” is literally unlistenable). I’m well aware t[…]

Jethro Tull. Simply writing the words here feels like entering some kind of permanently culturally forbidden territory, a hidden world that we are told permanently not to enter. It was punk that did it, of course. The conscious “Englishness&#82[…]

The Weekend Stops Here: a radio show run by a nice person who HumanClicked me after reaching Freaky Trigger via a search for the Magnetic Fields. Hooray for the Magnetic Fields! So I promised him a link and here it is. If you’re in the Cambridg[…]

God, I hate them. I really fucking hate them. For the benefit of those outside the UK, there’s a mainstream media stereotype here that people living on the Southern English coastline (where I grew up) are your stereotypical dim surf boys and gi[…]

With the current furore about students with no money and less taste playing swap shop with stolen music (i.e. Napster), Negativland’s stock has rarely been higher. This is a good thing, surely, since Negativland are a cutting-edge political ban[…]