LUDACRIS
Ludacris is the kind of guy your mother warned you about. But then so is your average flasher, and Moby aside nobody offers them a record deal. “What’s Your Fantasy” is a three-minute job application for Fiesta Letters, and[…]

LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS – “Why I Love Country Music”
“We feel fine / We’re killing time / Well what’s the crime?”
One of the first pieces of music criticism I remember reading was a cold dismissal of Ll[…]

THE PUB OF FAILURE – Revisited
Those with long publog memories will no doubt remember The Blue Posts Pub Crawl which took place just before Christmas last (after which it is safe to say that the Rupert Street Blue Posts – or the pub of se[…]

I’ve been travelling round the country a lot with work lately, and usually end up on licensed premises, since the meeting I go to take place in pubs. A few recent visits are worthy of a few notes.
The Elephant and Castle, Wakefield – Situ[…]

A TOUCH OF CLASS – “Around the World”/LA MONTE YOUNG AND THE THEATRE OF ETERNAL MUSIC BRASS BAND – The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From the Four Dreams of China
The second on my walkman’s t[…]

NIRVANA – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”/PEARL JAM – “Even Flow”
Two tracks that together helped define the “Seattle sound.” What seems most striking now is that if they’d been released five years soo[…]

Elidor bows out (temporarily, we’re assured) with some of its best-ever pieces. An essay on the Skitz album, Countryman, which has been getting heavy and well-deserved net buzz; a review of Eve’s Scorpion doubling as frenzied personal wri[…]

Thousand: with another special mystery guest star![…]

Sonicnow asked for a link and a link they have got – indie-ish e-zine with interviews and features.
Other stuff – there’s still two-and-a-half hours to demand that NYLPM/me reviews a song for you. One track each please – for p[…]

N’SYNC – “Pop”
Pop’s not dead. “Pop”, though, is barely twitching, a patchwork of modish elecro tics (yea even unto the bitchin’ treated guitar) sewn together by N’Sync’s hamster-tough singi[…]