Tanya Headon would be proud: Tangents’ Marino Guida lays into Dylan, but ends up in endearing Tangential style reviewing lots of other records instead. When they’re as good as the Triffids’ Calenture, I can’t complain.[…]

Perpetual Dawn – Perpetual Yawn more like.
Dr Alex Patterson – Doctor of tedium did not invent ambient music. He refined it – much like Shell do not invent the oil, they refine it and turn it into a substance that primarily (from a […]

DUEL!: Richard Ashcroft vs Moloko! Ugh.
As an aside, I’m really sorry for not attending to my e-mail that much lately. I’m going to put aside some time this weekend to attend to my sprawling inbox, so those of you who’ve written exp[…]

LOADED 1990- PRIMAL SCREAM
“Just what is you want to do, Bobby?”
“Well Tanya, what I really want to do is get the indie boys and girls onto the dance floor and make them dance like demented scarecrows trying to rid themselves of ars[…]

You might have thought that Morse code had been rendered obsolescent by WAP phones and ISDN. Not so – the “dot-dash” lives on in its more irritating “bleep-blop” incarnation, thanks to Warp.
Warp has been going for 10 y[…]

Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom – the dopplered sound of a souped up GTi hurtling down any road anywhere – Eee’d up, trendy sunglasses, and ultimately, a Ben Sherman shirt clad member of the Unofficial War Against Guitars army. A speak[…]

Yes kids, any blunted moron with a sampler can now become an musical icon!
The idea that someone would purposely take the do-it-yourself-even-if-you-have-no-talent aesthetic of bad punk music and combine it with the worst idea in hip-hop (namely that[…]

Reviewmania!: us against them comments on the scepticism surrounding Signal Drench‘s decision to move to what has – perhaps unfairly but I think not – become known as ‘Pitchfork format’, i.e. come rain, snow or shine th[…]

News Unlimited | Second sight: Douglas Rushkoff on digital manipulation in films, and on MP3s:
“By eliminating the real overtones associated with different instruments and the environments in which they are being played, then replacing them wit[…]

NYLPM blogs the blogs: Guy at Blahness writes: “I think that simplicity at times, especially when it manages to tap into some emotional response, can be extremely, extremely powerful. Space Invader bleeps may sound cool for a few years, but the[…]