Be like Colin and Edmund. Look! Here’s Edmund, and he’s an example to us all. Edmund is an adventurous drinker. One look at the many and various pub crawls he has undertaken in the past 15 years will tell you that. Some, it should be not[…]

1981 vs 2000: Charlotte Raven’s hypotheses put to the test by FT scientists![…]

I am not aware of any other showers in pubs – and I have to admit the temptation would get too much on a hot day in July for a wee sprinkle on the head (that does not read very well. It reads like it could take place in any pub toilet). However[…]

At least someone is admitting the RIAA is out of touch: A listing of the best songs of all time, as voted by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts, was released today, and the winner is…”Ove[…]

Glenn McDonald on Breadth and Depth: I’ve got a bit to say about this and it may well involve quoting. Glenn does The War Against Silence and is probably the most individual voice reviewing records online. I generally only read it when it&#8217[…]

Charlotte Raven vs Pop: British pop music is rubbish right now, says Charlotte. Hard to disagree with, in many ways. Therefore the British charts are rubbish. Easy to disagree with, that, since American hip-hop, pop and R&B is at a commercial/cr[…]

The Seven Stars, Carey Street The clientele of this pub is probably enough to put anybody off: pretty much wall-to-wall members of the beknighted legal profession, as one might expect from a pub which is tucked just behind the Royal Courts of Justice[…]

Is Pitchfork Mail losing its touch?: a highlight of the reading day reduced to pretending to be Limp Bizkit fans in order to provoke indie kids? The mailbag must be running low! Come on readers – help Pitchfork out! Write a letter! Demand more […]

JiffySquid on Sigur Ros: “Is it a powerful experience because the entire package, from the glowing embryonic figure on the cover to the cryptic lyrics, dictates that it must be powerful?”[…]

The International Pop War (a belated mention): while obviously rigged (how come we got the dodgy version of “Stutter”, eh?), Ian’s piece is still a very fun read. The UK charts wouldn’t be any fun, though, if they were all goo[…]