Douglas Wolk has a kind of listening-log/instant-review thing here, and it’s very good.[…]

ROOTS MANUVA – “Join the Dots”
The horns march fatalistically. He leads, striding and declaiming, sometimes whistling only to keep time.[…]

The Anti-Bling Kings: Simon Reynolds on Cannibal Ox. Very good on the problem of the underground MC (“as knotted with riddles and imagistically overripe as a late-period Costello lyric” – yes!), then less good on explaining exactly […]

The Mix Project: Michelangelo Matos makes mixtapes and writes about the songs on them as he does so. I thought of doing something similar to this a little while ago but all my mixtapes are the same anyway.[…]

Why I Love House Music: the end for A Thousand Songs is surely finally in sight![…]

In case you’re interested…the LondonIndieUSA event raised – when corporate donations were included – around £1800 for the International Red Cross. Thanks very much to any readers who came along![…]

NIRVANA – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”/SONIC YOUTH – “100%”/SMASHING PUMPKINS – “Cherub Rock”
Spiteful snarls and bitter distortion claw at curtains of shopping-mall gloss.
Butch Vig never got his du[…]

THE STREETS – “Has It Come To This?”
“You’re listening to The Streets”
Are we? The Streets is a novelty record which has the feel of an underground record, or – maybe even better – it’s an undergr[…]

Four Months Later…: A Thousand Songs is back.[…]

MICHAEL JACKSON – You Rock My World
Is that all you got? C’mon, show me what you got!
I’m not sure if this is all too new, but a “radio edit” version of the video has been spotted. Hopefully, you’ve lost 20 minut[…]