Just to get you in the mood for Daft Punk fever…: here are the sites of two more rule-shattering French artists.[…]

Greetings From Pub Paradise…aka Edinburgh. Actually this is a misnomer. It is paradise in one way only, i.e. it offers a sneak preview of the (hopeful) future of London drinking in that the boozers stay open late. This, as everyone knows, alter[…]

Keith Levene interview at PSF: Glad to see that he rates Yes so highly.[…]

For one week only (and to avoid it being put up on the day the new chart is released), Pop Eye returns to NYLPM. Firstly, apologies. Pop Eye is a bit late this week, mainly because Tom and I have been busy being angry at Charlotte Raven for misunders[…]

Be like Colin and Edmund. Look! Here’s Edmund, and he’s an example to us all. Edmund is an adventurous drinker. One look at the many and various pub crawls he has undertaken in the past 15 years will tell you that. Some, it should be not[…]

1981 vs 2000: Charlotte Raven’s hypotheses put to the test by FT scientists![…]

I am not aware of any other showers in pubs – and I have to admit the temptation would get too much on a hot day in July for a wee sprinkle on the head (that does not read very well. It reads like it could take place in any pub toilet). However[…]

At least someone is admitting the RIAA is out of touch: A listing of the best songs of all time, as voted by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts, was released today, and the winner is…”Ove[…]

Glenn McDonald on Breadth and Depth: I’ve got a bit to say about this and it may well involve quoting. Glenn does The War Against Silence and is probably the most individual voice reviewing records online. I generally only read it when it&#8217[…]

Charlotte Raven vs Pop: British pop music is rubbish right now, says Charlotte. Hard to disagree with, in many ways. Therefore the British charts are rubbish. Easy to disagree with, that, since American hip-hop, pop and R&B is at a commercial/cr[…]