A Thousand Songs: it’s an experiment of sorts.[…]

Today I think we will link to In Review – we will do this because it is a sorely underrated music weblog and we will specifically do this because of Jimmy Mod’s sarkily entertaining track-by-tracker on a Kill Rock Stars comp.[…]

THIN ON THE GROUND
I went to the pub the other day (well you know me, I go to the pub every day,- but for the sake of verisimilitude let us say it was New Years Day). I walked up to the bar and ordered myself the usual double G&T, and after cons[…]

The Pub Seven Deadly Sins: 3: Fake Doors
There is a joke about this. “When is a door not a door? When it is the left hand door of the Lord John Russell.”
It is cold, dark and relatively late. You are scurrying to meet friends in a local p[…]

Fillums eh? Tom claims to know not much about them, but I think its merely because its a difficult critical beast to muster. Writing about films already has a number of critical paradigms, there are degrees in the stuff – wheras degrees in Musi[…]

(I’m not entirely happy with this Le Tigre reviewlet but pending articulation of whatever else is kicking around my head re. the band I’ll put it up anyway….)
LE TIGRE – “Deceptacon”
Do you want new wave or do you […]

More FT news: there’s a selection from our bulging mailbag here; there’s an article on Foreigner and the eighties’ legacy here which looking at it may be the best thing I’ve written in a while; and if you’ve not been rea[…]

Playlouder’s Top 50 Singles Of The Year: a good job thoroughly done, and little enough to quibble with. If the NME could still be arsed to cover singles properly, it could run this and keep the target market and the old bores alike fairly happy[…]

Now the publishing thing seems a little smoother a few more words on those Tangents articles – Everett True contributes a lengthy and fascinating Dexy’s Midnight Runners interview which, awkward pauses and all, reads like the Don’t […]

In Close Proximity of a Muppet: hey, it’s his tagline, not mine. Anyway this is agenbyte.com: it’s a weblog with a decent splicing of good music links included.[…]