Kym Marsh vs Jonathan King: a short – and possibly even controversial – article by Mark Sinker on Jonathan King, and Hear’Say, and showbiz cynicism.[…]

No wait I take it all back!: “”Extending oneself beyond monosyllabic utterances is usually an indication one is more educated and learned,” said the researchers about analysing the average length of the words in each artist’s […]

Marcello is right: well, half-right. One of my biggest regrets last year was not finishing parts 2 and 3 of the ‘Death of Pop’ articles. The plan was to draw a line under the bullishly pro-pop attitudes we’d been espousing here, to […]

1: Play Harmonica like Bob Dylan in three easy steps:
1. Put harmonica to your lips
2. Blow
3. Suck
Repeat for the length of the solo but whatever you do, to be true to the unique Dylan style, do not move your mouth. This may introduce other “n[…]

We do give a damn about our friends: intense excitement accompanies the new release of a split single by Clock Strikes Thirteen and The Clientele, covering one another’s songs. The Clientele are long-standing FT favourites of course, but for ad[…]

I want my ILM: if you’ve been having trouble getting onto ILM and ILE, this url might be more reliable for ILM (and this one for ILE.)[…]

Kylie can’t be arsed to be big in America. There is no story here of course, but I like the analogy where it appears that Kylie is using the old “Funny how the girls you fall in love with never fancy you, funny how the ones you don’[…]

Dave Popshots is right – this is very good. Captures nicely the mix of diffidence and enthusiasm you feel when you listen to records a lot, and asks some useful questions on the way.[…]

There’s too much love to go around these days
How much do you think I like music? Sometimes I get e-mails, angry about this or that, telling me I don’t like it at all. Sometimes I’m inclined to agree. Every now and then a poster pop[…]