A Thousand Songs – 0881 – 0895[…]

Cat Skratch Fever – For you music majors out there looking to concentrate on the wicky-wicky (or anyone remotely interested in hip-hop, really), here’s an excellent article by Franklin Bruno detailing the emergence of TWO notational syste[…]

THE STROKES – “Last Night”
THE FRENCH KICKS – “Young Lawyer”
Oh, The Strokes, The Strokes, The Strokes. Where do you begin with The Strokes? You could begin with “Last Night”, off their first single. It[…]

Queen of hearts anyone? I fear that today is truly the day that music died.[…]

PULP – “Disco 2000”
This can’t be good for me. I know this can’t be good for me
he said as he pressed “play” again.[…]

rootnode.org: a collaborative music website. Interesting idea – didn’t see many opinions that made my ears prick up, but it only launched in April so, again, early days.[…]

Mr. David Raposa may dislike J-Lo’s “Play”, but even so he deserves better than having his sidebar link scuppered by an extraneous ‘w’. So: go to Popshots.[…]

To E or Not to E: Greg Tate in the Village Voice, with a rambunctious Missy review which lauds her (& Timbaland) for the music and lays into her for the Ecstasy proselytising. An original take to say the least: Tate compares the consequences of […]

Ocean Colour Scene: Mechanical Wonder: Pitchfork Review “As far as contemporary British trad-rock is concerned, it simply doesn’t come much better than this”. Mmmmmm, great. A pretext – since I know a lot of you reading this h[…]

Serious issues hit Pumpkin Publog. Post election there has been a huge cabinet reshuffle. But not only that but now the responsibility for licencing and therefore pubs has been bumped over to the Ministry of Culture. This may seem – at least id[…]