Pitchfork Link Of The Day (yeah sorry, to you and to P’fork actually) – the 2 Many DJs mix CD. Vaguely unsatisfying review – the summary I think is that he likes it but he’s worried it won’t last. A lot of reviewers on t[…]

TIRIRICA – Calango
Listening to 103.9 in the car this woman asks for “the song about the calango” because her daughter loves it and always sing with it, i was just about to change the station thinking this would be awful but while[…]

It’s September kids, and the summer season – hiatus – pissing off on holiday whatever you may call it has finished. Here, riding over the hill like some Combined Science Teacher who couldn’t get another job, is Pop-Eye. Its be[…]

Where Am I? I thought I’d better make some kind of announcement since Freaky Trigger hasn’t been updated for over a month. There is a decent backlog of articles building up but basically I’ve been too busy to give it much attention.[…]

Introduction
For a long time, hardcore was my secret shame, a big red H sewed to my side of anti-modernist thinking, an albatross from my misspent youth. Its strictures, its anti-pleasures, its ugliness are very far indeed from what makes up the bulk[…]

I don’t think much of the idea of ‘guilty pleasures’ but there’s guilt and there’s guilt, isn’t there? There’s guilt for something you might be doing wrong – breaking some invisible law of taste, maybe […]

(That Thing I Never Wrote About X-Press 2)
In the end the main reason I quit my job is because I despise working. Despise is too flowery a word even, to be honest I’d prefer ‘hate’. I hated working in a petrol station. I hated two o[…]

Spiders: creepy, crawly little critters which seem up to no good – hanging in the corner of your room, leaving webs around just to make a mess – definitely with their own agenda. Not the most obvious creature to base a film on. Yet Hollyw[…]