MERCURY REV – “The Dark Is Rising”
1998 seems terribly far away, though. I would not have guessed that the shiver of life between 25, when I heard Deserter’s Songs and wanted to cry, and 28, when I heard this and wanted to wri[…]

SUM 41 — “Fat Lip”
CAKE — “Short Skirt Long Jacket”
SUGAR RAY — “When It’s Over”
A Brief Discussion Concerning Modernism (Loosely Interpreted) In Three Parts
I.
“[One device of moderni[…]

The Power Trio: The “metal triumvirate” of Chuck Eddy, Martin Popoff, and Deena Wozniak chat about Ozzfest. Most interesting comment – Wozniak’s suggestion that the visual barrage and musical high-speed change-heavy jerkiness […]

Trick Daddy – Take It 2 Da House
Time was when being a ‘thug’ was all about the absolute rejection of style: the ‘keeping it real’ ethos taken to its repellant-but-compelling extreme. Funny then how nearly all the big na[…]

New Article – Fred Solinger talking about the Beta Band’s Hot Shots II.
This is also a good opportunity for me to apologise to you all for the lack of updates and upkeep on the site. A crisis of faith in pop writing and a number of deligh[…]

0: I Will Regret This
I discovered today I have a thousand songs on my hard drive. They last sixty-six hours, thirty minutes, and thirty seven seconds, and take up a bit over three gig.
This page is a documentary of my listening to them, no repeats, […]