THE AVALANCHES – “Live on Radio One at Ibiza, 4/8/01”
After a straightforward tour of Carribbean rhythms, and before a totally righteous collision of The Jackson Sisters, Madonna, Bob Dylan and the Avalanches themselves, the most co[…]

So The Bedford won the Evening Standard Pub Of The Year then. I had another trip down there at the weekend and it is an impressive pub. Two bars, two (or is it three) function rooms ‘ one with a club/late licence. It truly is all things to all […]

COMPASS OF CRIME – THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH
I rejoice when a band splits up. To me its like Christmas and my birthday all on the same joyous moment. Especially when a band as rancidly unambitious as The Housemartins called it a day. Apart from appro[…]

Indie Rock Bus Review: The search for the new continues, and on this short bus journey I was not going to be enlightened. I heard two very freah out the box good tracks, but I didn’t hear anything that I would call groundbreaking. First up was […]

DUEL 2002! Round 2 Match 1
Welcome to the second round of Duel! 2002, the ongoing search for the worst band in the world at the present time. The second round differs from the first in one important way — from now on we’ll be giving bands[…]

If you’re going to do a list, do it like this. (Referring to Ethan’s Rap albums, not whatever shows up here tomorrow). (Also I’m about to ignore my own advice.)[…]

NY Mirror: Fly Life: har har Electroclash backlash but even if the scene is a desperate retread of times past, this article isn’t saying much new either. Put down your drum machines and go and listen to some funk jams, kids! – like that w[…]

We Will Never Give It Up
I have never really made mix tapes or discs or things like that for myself. For others, yes, sometimes due to love, other times due to, well, education (starting in 1994 or so, after a complaint from my mom that all my genera[…]

Moloko, “Sing It Back (Herbert’s Tasteful Dub)”
The first thing that seduces you about a Herbert production is the sensuousness of noise sounds. There’s very little here in the way of “natural” sounds, maybe the d[…]

A very quick update before the birthday special gets going next week – Ronan Fitzgerald contributes a Futurism review and becomes the first Freaky Trigger writer ever to use the phrase “this is rock and roll”. The early 80s time-tra[…]