Unplug the oldies – for good: long essay with little to say – Rolling Stones apparently now old men shocker. “Rock is about youth” quoth writer. First rule of rock, ‘kids’: never believe anyone who wants to tell yo[…]

MR. GREENGENES, WAX, AND THE UNDERGROUND
LIVE MUSIC FROM OCEAN CITY, MD – AUG. 6, 8, & 11
i have to start a band. upon leaving monday’s performance by mr. greengenes, with the history of mediocre bar band shows ringing in my ears, i […]

I have been neglectful of new music weblogs lately. Given that I’ve hardly been reading all the old music weblogs, this is not surprising. But it means I’ve missed out on sex and sunshine (which is a fine name for a weblog) and somnolence[…]

Consequences: Clarence Carter, Hefner, pop and sin, discussed in a new Freaky Trigger article.[…]

You might like to know that the fourth CLUB SUSSED is taking place this Thursday night in its usual venue: Club Latino, The Plain, Oxford, £3 to get in, 10pm-2am, pop music and beer. A Day Of Decadence is also planned for the Friday. Regular DJ[…]

Punk: How was it for you?: punk is twenty-five years old, that’s nice. The more interesting question – how is it for you? – goes unasked.[…]

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[…]