BASEMENT JAXX – “ROMEO” (MP3)
when modern music looks into the past for archetypal lovers, it usually comes up with two results, men whose individual approaches to amor could scarely be more different: romeo and casanova. casanova w[…]

tom cruise to star as phil spector: oi! tom cruise! oi! cameron crowe!! yes, a phil spector biopic would be a good thing, but do we really want it from the team who brought us jerry maguire? and considering crowe’s last foray into making a movi[…]

Am I Cool Or Not?….OK, there’s no new AICON today. But there are, at long last, the archives![…]

Deep in the bowels of freakytrigger.com something stirs….Pop Eye, a week late, for which I apologise heartily to guest-writers John and Kate.[…]

Pop And Me: (I wrote this in the forum but I quite liked it as an answer to an – ahem – Frequently Asked Question)
I don’t like the word “ironic” not cause it doesn’t hide a grain of truth but because it’s re[…]

Dreams Of Declan: “My dream is to get his girlfriend out of the way” – hold on now missus that’s a bit scary.[…]

An Indieland Snapshot: 30 acts which we’ve talked about quite a lot here, and their relative popularity on artofthemix.com. The no. is how many of the approx 10,000 catalogued ‘mixes’ they’ve appeared on.
Radiohead – 1,5[…]

Big Beat Nut: it’s a guy who likes records with beats in them. Big ones. It’s in a weblog format and has – respect is due – soundfiles! Though less crit than I’d like.[…]

“Ms. Jackson” and the Pop Eternity
What is it that makes “Ms Jackson” such a splendid pop song? It’s the chorus, and the backwards-shuffle drums, yes, but it’s also the story the track tells. Or, more accurately, t[…]

Read Aural Innovations: it’s the global source for spacerock exploration. My knee-jerk personal reaction is naturally “God help us if there’s a war”, but all things have their place in this creation, even spacerock, and this d[…]