Radio Plus gives you Emm! Pee! Threes! of stuff that John Peel is playing. All the usual suspects including Most Annoying Song Ever “I Have The Password To Your Shell Account” by Barcelona, the band who make Baxendale look like Kraftwerk.[…]

Yaara.com: “should really be linked by NYLPM” says Sterling on the forum, and who can disagree? Indian pop online – Bollywood, bhangra, pop, ‘Asian underground’. Neat.[…]

The Thirteen Year Itch – until I get my 29-year theory sorted out, Tony Wilson’s theory (Beatles in ’63, punk in ’76, acid in ’89) is the best bet because it gives you a little bit of breathing space for Something to Hap[…]

(Yes Pete does do laundry, thus explaining my emotional and psychological upset at occasionally having to witness his underwear hanging around the flat. Rather than drying it in the fresh open air of our kitchen however he hangs it in the dark dank &[…]

THE PUB SEVEN DEADLY SINS: 4: No Smoking Areas REACTION NUMBER TWO
The major problem with Pub No-Smoking Areas is that the only way to guarantee their being smoke-free is to open all the doors and windows nearby so the No-Smoking Area is also the Dra[…]

THE PUB SEVEN DEADLY SINS: 4 : No Smoking Areas REACTION NUMBER ONE
Taking a partial an unilateral view on a subject. Not something that Mr Baran has been un-guilty of before (Year of New Racism eh? Not quite unilateral if you count the Tory back-b[…]

PUBGOERS DEADLY SINS: 1 : NOT GOING TO THE PUB
A public apology to John for not going to the pub last night. But hey, we’re young and healthy, there’s plenty more nights out in pubs to enjoy……….
Further Pubgoers Deadly S[…]

The Ten Year Itch – a theory which – as Tom mentions below – is seemingly disproved by nothing interesting happening (in rock terms) in 1997. Sometimes though you can’t see the wood for the trees: ’96/’97 was the y[…]

The Year of the Rock – Rock ‘n’ roll’s 12-year itch.: it’s idiocy time! I first heard about the cyclical theory of rock back in, what, 1997 or 1998. It gets quoted by critics who want a big ‘revolutionary’ sc[…]

Beyoncé Good and Evil: Jessica Winter reviews the new Destiny’s Child album. Back-and-forthing on the forum casts this piece as a demolition, whether justified or not, but reading it, it just seems like sharp, smart criticism. Not all positive[…]