80s Without A Face: this is Jesstastic Jess Harvell writing in the Village Voice about DJ Sammy. Trancebag versions of rock classics are, as Jess implies, nothing new – I think the best thing about them is how they point up what good songs a lo[…]

“You’re talking about things I haven’t done yet.”: when you first heard Rufige Kru’s “Terminator”, what did you think? Was it closer to –
a) “Blimey what a rinsin tune, that’s likely to resh[…]

JENNIFER LOPEZ FEATURING JADAKISS & STYLES – “Jenny From The Block”
OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP.[…]

When I walk home, I pass a cross walk, and there is a button so that the blind can have an audible signal.
Now I’m not blind, and have no need to press the button, but the sound is so wonderful- like a clockwork nightengale made into an autom[…]

Liza
When I was in high school, and it was New Years Eve, I wasn’t invited to any parties and my parents were out, Cabaret came on television and I fell in love: the scene with the sweater, the clinging desperate drunken dancing, the growling […]

Pop Music Focus Group VII- Ballot: today’s the live group in London – and for everyone else, send me your ballots before the 16th December, because I’m going to get the Focus Group up when people can actually still remember the song[…]

So, after dicking about on Soulseek for many weeks, I finally managed to snag a copy of this. And it’s good. A solid, subtle listen that my tinny, underfed computer speakers are doing sonic violence to. I’m sure listened to on speakers[…]

***ATHLETE*** – yes it’s the homepage of ***ATHLETE***, and if you go there it will play you their single “Beautiful”, which I’d never heard until just now. It’s a bit ordinary, especially in its use of dynamics. B[…]

The publog goes west. I spent last weekend in Bristol and of course took in a couple of its pubs. Just a couple because the first one I was in I liked so much. The Brewery Tap is very near the centre of town as defined by the bus station and not obvi[…]

SFIAB 1: PETE YORN
Pete Make-me-fall a-fucking-sleep more like.[…]