The Avalanches – Since I Left You
It’s summer in Melbourne, and stinking hot. I take solace where I can find it: stealing my sister’s fan any time I can, sculling bottles of juice at three in the morning, and listening to The Avalan[…]

Tim told me that The Avalanches had made his favourite record of the year. So I asked him to review it. And here we are.[…]

Another Monday, another Am I Cool Or Not?: who is this young man and more importantly what is he into? Plus ‘keyboard girl’ assessed. As usual, thankyou to everyone who wrote in last week and you are all encouraged to give it a go this ti[…]

It is rare in the slovenly world of online music criticism for a site to redesign, so I don’t get to do my bloggin’ duty and mention it that often. However indie rock lynchpin us|against|them has not only redesigned but it is – and […]

NIRVANA – Tedious Rubbish
Fact One: The track Endless Nameless is called Endless Nameless. It therefore has a name.
Fact Two: The track Endless Nameless fits on one CD. CD?s hold a maximum of 78 minutes of music. Therefore the track is at most […]

SHARK WILSON AND THE BASEMENT HEATERS – “Make It Reggae”
“Whatever I play, it’s gonna be reggae” says Shark, so his band naturally put down a tough, springy funk groove. Or funk-reggae or funk in the process of mut[…]

Sobs, Static And Sweat: superb review of the new Jay-Z and Wu-Tang albums from the Village Voice.[…]

Chicks Dig Hip Hop: exactly what it says it is – a weblog, by women, devoted to hip-hop. And go into the archives for some of the liveliest blogvoices commentary I’ve seen. Why are there so few webogs about hip-hop, hmm?[…]

The Best Barmaid In London? Possibly. Now everyone knows that Pumpkin Pubs has a strange predilictation for The Rising Sun on Tottenham Court Road – usually known as The Riser. Strange because these days there really is little special about the[…]

Oxford Calling, Oxford Calling….this is just to say that the Pumpkin Publog is back to its former Blogspot glory, now the whole server problem seems to be under control. We would have contributed, of course, but we had no guarantee that any mon[…]