Heaven Help Us!: how I would love to see the local press coverage of this one.[…]

Twenty Underappreciated Bands Of The Nineties: Disco Inferno! Yeah! Loads of indie pony! Um….(thanks to Vaughan for the link).[…]

Jiffysquid and Simulare are new – well, new to me – music blogs turned up by Kathleen a little while back. Styles: Jiffysquid is pleasingly big-print and is also pro-indie rock, though not as single-minded on that front as some. It’[…]

Simon Reynolds picks his dance albums of the year: a tempting list, I have to say. What I find interesting are the hybrids he’s identifying between IDM and gabba, and IDM and booty bass – I’m personally having plenty of fun explorin[…]

As well as a regulation-issue news service (“win TONS of prizes” etc.), online music site Vitaminic runs a weblog. And it’s a very good one. It doesn’t have its own site, piggybacking on the general Vitaminic news one, so you&[…]

Being a sad Mojo-reading dadrock-loving sort, I can follow up this post with mention of the notorious Moby Grape singles scam, where said band released five singles on one day, each with a different A-Side and B-Side taken from their forthcoming debu[…]

The Manic Street Preachers (ahem) have announced the release of not one but two new singles on the same day. The idea of the two singles is to show the depth, nay breadth of the music on their new album. So that’ll be a slow one and a fast one […]

A CONVERSATION WITH A PEPSI PUBLICIST CIRCA 1995
PP: Hello
Brett Anderson (for tis he): Hi, can I interest you in a song for an advert?
PP: Who is this?
BA: This is Brett Anderson, of the fantastic British Indie, I mean Rock band Suede.
PP: Never hea[…]

Another Best Of 2000 List: a.m.a. veteran and mailing list pal Kris S. provides a heavily annotated best-of for an end of year poll I’m running on said list. I like it so much I ask to run it on the site. So here it is![…]

Jamie Oliver lookalike? And isn’t that Lee doing a solo bit?[…]