Indie Rock Porn
No, seriously. It is. Over 18s only. You will be amazed to see an XXX site – actually it’s barely half an X – with all the defensive snobbery you know and love from your favourite zines (“for men who actually g[…]

Bangsheet: vaguely punky (the word I use when there’s a picture of Lester B on the front page and I’ve not heard of 50% of the music under discussion) webzine whose focus is on having writing that’s as interesting as the music is. A[…]

Thankyou Swish Cottage for reminding me of this: now I just have to find my own copy.[…]

See! See what you’ve done with your so-called ‘blogmeets’??[…]

Nude As The News reviews Radiohead’s Amnesiac – the backlash begins. Musicological stuff aside what seems to bug them is that it’s bitty, slight, Yorke fucks his voice up loads and that it runs its ideas into the ground. These are a[…]

ABBA – “The Day Before You Came”
Abba’s second-last single is mundane and spooky, terrified and tender and startlingly original – a song about an office worker which dares to empathise? “Fitter Happier” made […]

BASEMENT JAXX – “ROMEO” (MP3)
when modern music looks into the past for archetypal lovers, it usually comes up with two results, men whose individual approaches to amor could scarely be more different: romeo and casanova. casanova w[…]

tom cruise to star as phil spector: oi! tom cruise! oi! cameron crowe!! yes, a phil spector biopic would be a good thing, but do we really want it from the team who brought us jerry maguire? and considering crowe’s last foray into making a movi[…]

Am I Cool Or Not?….OK, there’s no new AICON today. But there are, at long last, the archives![…]

Deep in the bowels of freakytrigger.com something stirs….Pop Eye, a week late, for which I apologise heartily to guest-writers John and Kate.[…]