Pitchfork Gets Candid: “Okay, let’s be honest here: I know jack about techno. I’ve never really understood the DJ disc concept, and all the artists on this CD (Sniper? Narco Dogs? General MIDI?) are new to me.”[…]

AIR – “Radio#1”
Air are beautiful boys with Utopia in their eyes – “With love, melancholy snipers will become flower gun users” they tell us, and whyever shouldn’t we believe them? Their “Radio #1&#8221[…]

Ladies and Gentlemen the triumphant return of…Am I Cool Or Not?[…]

In these enlightened times when almost everybody has a favourite Backstreet Boys song it’s both saddening and strangely heartening to note that in the shadowy corners of popular culture there still lurk people carping about the Monkees being ma[…]

Indie Rock Porn
No, seriously. It is. Over 18s only. You will be amazed to see an XXX site – actually it’s barely half an X – with all the defensive snobbery you know and love from your favourite zines (“for men who actually g[…]

Bangsheet: vaguely punky (the word I use when there’s a picture of Lester B on the front page and I’ve not heard of 50% of the music under discussion) webzine whose focus is on having writing that’s as interesting as the music is. A[…]

Thankyou Swish Cottage for reminding me of this: now I just have to find my own copy.[…]

See! See what you’ve done with your so-called ‘blogmeets’??[…]

Nude As The News reviews Radiohead’s Amnesiac – the backlash begins. Musicological stuff aside what seems to bug them is that it’s bitty, slight, Yorke fucks his voice up loads and that it runs its ideas into the ground. These are a[…]

ABBA – “The Day Before You Came”
Abba’s second-last single is mundane and spooky, terrified and tender and startlingly original – a song about an office worker which dares to empathise? “Fitter Happier” made […]