I’ll see your Death in Vegas and raise you one Sophie Ellis-Bextor auditioning to be a BOND GURL. I read this in the PRINTED PAGES of your Local NME, whereupon one tiny second of checking their source showed it to be on dodgy Bond fansite &#822[…]

There is worse out there than the guitarist from Faithless forming a new band. Richard Fearless, DJ and front-man of Death In Vegas has a solo project coming out. This is unfortunately since The Contino Sessions was wandering towards the infamous dan[…]

Nelly wants fans to adopt patriotic fashion: good work Sir, bouncing back and all that. Except look deeper into the article (worth it for Nelly’s foolish facepaint) and we find that “It’s my new clothing line”. K-ching! In oth[…]

ARSE-HOLE SUN
It has occured to me that in my spot-on skewering of the excrable Puddle Of Mudd on the sword of being Soundgarden copyists, that I haven’t really had an in depth discussion on why exactly Soundgarden were so so very very bad. I g[…]

Not only that Tom, but the AMA article is riddled with falsities and tantalising half stories. Destiny’s Child in so called matching beige tops when it is clear that Beyonce is in “band leader” brown. Did Aaliyah send a recorded acc[…]

New soul generation dominate American Music Awards: yes yes all very well but “Best Internet Artist: U2”? Best Internet Artist? What fresh nonsense is this? If they’d wanted to reflect what the Internet actually likes (god help it) […]

There’s a ghost in this (public) house. Those who know him would agree that Tim Hopkins is a pub goer without equal. Despite an enforced absence from the cut and thrust of the pub scene of late he is a man you would never expect to commit a pu[…]

SOUNDGARDEN
Weedy.[…]

IHM LYRIC WATCH
So Solid Crew featuring Mr Shabz – Haters
“So many haters don’t like us rakeing papers”
(And that is their spelling of raking from the delightful So Solid Crew dot co dot uk.)
Is Mr Shabz a parkie? A street cle[…]

PUDDLE OF MUDD
cf Soundgarden.
To be confused with similar sized and shaped brown things. Like pieces of shit.[…]