VAN MORRISON – Like A Jelly Roll
Van The Man. What kind of nickname is that? Its as if he was so dull that the couldn’t think of any distinguishing factors of his personality to hang a sobriquet on. Truth is of course that a lot of people[…]

FOO FIGHTERS – This Is a Call
This isn’t about the song itself. This is about two moments in the song. (Moments In Love, I guess – click click.) The first is the chorus, with those five guitar notes skating over the ebullient ruc[…]

The Out-Of-Focus Group: From the minds of M Jemmeson & Mitch Lastnamewithheld (and probably a few other folks, I dunno) comes the ILM Listening Chamber. Listen to unmarked MP3s, and make untainted, unbiased judgements about them on the ILM boa[…]

Pleasantly straightforward review of the recent Acid Mothers Temple album, blogged because it is what I have been melting my head with all day.[…]

radio free narnia is a weblog by Mark Sinker. It’s not all about music but announcing it here should win it more hits than announcing it on Groke.[…]

Heroes Or Zeroes: note quote from “Internet music journalist Tom Ewing” at the bottom. Look Ma, I’m famous![…]

Proof that anger is so 10 September: Fred Durst renounces hatred, calls on listeners to love, lays ground for new Cure-inspired Limp Bizkit record, inspires more middle-finger waving (this time from, well, me). “Give peace a chance”? Plea[…]

The Short List of Music: Or, if you’re feeling cynical today, An Attempt by the Music Industry At Large to Give Shout-Outs to Those Acts Not Pulling In the Billboard Bullets (i.e. The Majority of Musical Recording Acts, Duh). If you released […]