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 […]

Freaky Trigger updates — yes, you read that right. After dealing with a little of this and that, three new articles for your perusal — Fred S. discusses Mercury Rev’s All is Dream, I tackle that one myself along with efforts from s[…]

Last Plane to Jakarta is today and by some distance the best music zine on the ‘net and I’m ashamed for not having linked to it before. Truth to tell I didn’t look at it before because I knew it would be better than what I’m d[…]

What is “Panic” about? Dismissed and attacked since its release as small-minded, or snobbish, or even borderline racist, The Smiths’ anti-disco broadside continues to intrigue. On this thread, The Pinefox calls it a “yoking of[…]