I’ve found my self drinking in dives for the last few months. Not working class pubs, but really honest dives. The ones w beer stained carpets, laminate tables, and chipboard walls. The ones where you only drink beer in bottles, and you only dr[…]

Tom’s Top Ten!
This could have been a top 20 very easily – so much good stuff reaching my ears right now! No write-ups, though I want to write up some of them separately, we’ll see.
MISSY ELLIOTT – “Work It”
BREEZE[…]

www.reggae-riddims.com – Blimey! (thanks Tim)[…]

POP-EYE RINGTONE REVIEWS!
Forget this “singles” nonsense! The “kids” today rate their “pop” based on one thing only – how does it sound coming out your PHONE when you get a call and your “mates” a[…]

Eight Fragments For Barry Gibb: an excellent little essay by Mark Richard-San, about disco revisionism. The sort of thing I’d absolutely love to have run myself, actually.[…]

The Old Dairy on Stroud Green Road holds two quizzes each week. Their music quiz is held every Thursday but we were there on a Tuesday for the general knowledge quiz. The crowd was youthful and lively (i.e. brash and drunk), with the exception of a[…]

Mobos 2002: The nominees: like most UK awards there’s a faint tinge of the unneccessary about the MOBOs, and the polite fudge that “music of black origin” needn’t be “music made by black people” is typically Britis[…]

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[…]