‘I use Reality TV…’: I feel sorry for the Hives, actually, caught up into a rhetorical-historical argument they didn’t begin and probably would flourish better out far away from, having small-time fun somewhere off media radar[…]

It’s not music but… I’m enough of a narcissist and a miserablist to note that Chuck Jones died the day after my birthday. For a person with few heroes – but heroes passionately revered and believed in – it’s a cr[…]

Give Us The Boots!: “Gimix was released by The Avalanches to combat the bootlegs of their (unfinished) album which were finding their way around Australia and the U.K. It was available on the cassette “Contains Elements Of Since I Left Y[…]

The Qt Of Blood Technique
Having spent the latter half of 1999 away from tape making due to self-imposed mix detox, the acquisition of a CD burner during that year’s Yuletide sent me back into the hobby with a mad frenzy. I didn’t fall of[…]

Rites of Spring – “End on End”
The one lesson almost every emo band who followed in their wake (which is, well, all of them) seems to forget: thou shalt not not rock.[…]

PICK ON SOMEBODY YOUR OWN SIZE
Let’s think of some small things. The profits that the Poptones label made in its first year. The amount of emotion the Pet Shop Boys pour into every one of their songs. The number of times Slade or Prince actuall[…]

Ananova supplies us with this marvellous picture from what was from most reports a pretty lacklustre Brits. We get to see tonight I suppose (though I’ll be in the pub) but easily the most interesting part of the night is also almost item number[…]

UK Garage In 2001, Part 2: Tim Finney’s overview of UK G concludes as he talks us through some of the year’s best tunes and how they fit in to the scene’s continuing evolution. Some mouthwatering descriptions![…]

Must be a slow day in music… I suspect I’ll always be a bit baffled by the canonization of Richard D. James as the Most Innovative Electronic Artist of the 90s. (Saying this, mind, as someone who owns nearly everything the man’s pu[…]

Just leave me alone! Pubs are for drinking in – that seems pretty obvious. For me, it’s no particular problem if people want to have too much to drink in a pub. Indeed, it’s not quite the same if there is no row of drunken sods pr[…]