A lock-in! A lock-in! I got a lock-in last night, only my second in two and a half years in London.
I was only recently thinking how much I missed the thrill of seeing the curtains drawn come quarter past eleven and the smiling complicity of all inv[…]

DUEL II! – Duel Of The Dead: learn who won out of Jimbo and Phil (not difficult) – and vote in the second pair-off.[…]

Fantasy Pop League: official launch! You’ve read the NYLPM hype, you’ve groaned at the awful manager names, you’ve wondered (possibly) what it was actually going to be – now your questions are answered and all that remains is […]

The pressures of fame: Carsmile Steve reports on a shocking False Tom who infiltrated the Belle And Sebastian list under my name and proceeded to post the whole of the Indie Kids piece (thoughtfully including copyright!). Now I am a peaceable man, bu[…]

Fantastic stuff via Pete: the entertainment category of Petition Online, where you can create your own petition which will be sent to someone, maybe, possibly, or maybe not, who knows, hell, who cares, it’s another excuse to use the Internet fo[…]

The backlash backlash may be beginning, but the original backlash still has plenty of life in it. This story is time-honoured tabloid evil-pop-star-hysteria, the noteworthy thing being that it’s not a tabloid that’s running it, but the Su[…]

The Eminem backlash backlash starts here in a most amusing fashion. When the moral majority comes out against some horrific artist (as has happened in the last week) acadaemia may slowly and eventually rear its head to look at the car crash. Here we […]

Pop Eye finds me in particularly grumpy mood this week. Of course the charts would turn poor the moment we launch P-E as its own page. There’s a poll though, so run and look.[…]

soulDecision Comment On The Nature Of Pop Music: You need only look at soulDecision to know that they are not a boy band, oh dear no. And the article concurs: “However, when real pop music comes along we now tend to lump it wrongly in with *NYS[…]

Rare to find a thinkpiece I agree with so unequivocally as this one from an Atlanta paper about the joy of Now – as in, the moment in pop, not the compilation album, although that would fit the rubric. (via scrubbles.
And it’s also rare t[…]