Blimey its a new episode of Thousand (with a special guest star!)[…]

do you remember rock n’ roll radio?: report from salon on clear channel communications which quietly acquired over 1,200 radio stations in america, including 247 in the top 250 markets. your favorite local station may now be programmed from hun[…]

THE PUB SEVEN DEADLY SINS: 4 : No Smoking Areas
Now those who know me will be well aware that I rarely puff on the evil weed. Or, for that matter, its slightly less evil and more charitable weed. So you would think that I would be a clean air fanatic[…]

BROADCAST – “Come On Let’s Go” / “Dead The Long Year”
Not a review so much as a suggestion and a glimpse. A suggestion that people think of Broadcast too much as sound curators and mood builders, casting old Radiop[…]

A Loafer’s Discourse – my final (hopefully) word on the freakytrigger.com thing.[…]

REM – “IMITATION OF LIFE”
i have a problem, and all of yer recovery type programs say that the first step is to admit to it. so i will do just that.
i like the new rem single.
it’s good, i don’t know what else to say. ex[…]

Simon Reynolds’ Unfaves of 2000 – the link on his page doesn’t work, but this one does. TREMBLE! as Aaliyah gets a dissing. QUAKE! as progressive trance comes under the hammer. NOD! as Reynolds says some very sensible things about N[…]

Now I’m the last person to big up Travis (no – that isn’t true, everyone else on NYLPM are probably the last person – but that still puts me in the last thirteen). However listening to Sing by Travis it occurs to me that it is[…]

FT vs the Cockfarmers: Update: The cockfarmers have won. Ha! OK, no, the situation re. the domain name is that we’ve not got it and that you should under no circumstances go to freakytrigger.com and give the people who do any money. As least if[…]

“The problem is,” my friend is saying, “That people see relationships as a zero-sum game.” And while I’m talking to her Aaliyah is saying “Who should be hurt? Who should be blamed?”, ’cause someone has […]