Pretty much as soon as I started Popular I decided to mark each song out of ten. I had a few reasons for this. I’d not really written reviews with marks attached before and thought it might enliven things a little. I had been reading EDGE magaz[…]

Now I remember why I never linked David’s blog before – there’s something about it which fucks up the browser bar and makes it impossible to keep the screen still. Fingers crossed this doesn’t happen on your machine cos it loo[…]

The MP3 Party: go back to your file-sharers and prepare for government. (via Cha Cha Cha)[…]

“Conscious Estrangement”: I am linking to this because it’s very nice about me, oh yes, but also because I don’t quite agree. Firstly I don’t think ‘we’ have had any impact beyond the individual level –[…]

Restate My Assumptions: another music – well sometimes music – blog. He doesn’t like the Coral, he writes a lot about the Gentle Waves, he’s young, it looks good.[…]

The publog returns with a thorny question – nay, accusation – of pub etiquette breaches against one of its number. The question boils down to this: in a group gathering when no table is available, is it permissible to hand drinks to anoth[…]

SPICE GIRLS – Wannabe

This tuesday i went to check out a blowout sale and kept admiring this for ages and ages so i finally decided to buy it after much thinking(i mean, it was only 5 reais). Oh well, did i made myself happy by buying this si[…]

This seems reasonable but I wonder how much I actually agree with Douglas Wolk’s Village Voice analysis of what we might have called, if someone hadn’t thought of this a few years ago, the new wave of new wave. Wolk says that he ‘ca[…]

BREAKFAST OF BANALITY 8: JELLY ROLL MORTON – Ham And Eggs
I wonder if you have ever applied for a job dear reader. I know I have. Its important to be specific on ones CV – mine has the usual clauses (will work for gin, no mornings or inde[…]

diskant – “a network of websites by independent fanzines, bands and record labels”, based in Glasgow and included here because it’s doing a good thing and because I want to make more effort with my links sidebar and this serve[…]