r. kelly indicted on child pornography charges: once in a while, i guess a grand jury can see something wrong with a little bump & grind.[…]

“Ethan P has shit for brains.”
“I stopped reading it 1/4 of the way through… it was too frustrating.”[…]

Freaky Trigger Reminder Zone: just to remind you that you’ve only got a couple of weeks left to do your follow-up articles for 102 Beats That (if you’re taking part) and your Focus Group votes (if you want to take part) – links are […]

‘… As the Tiger is in space’
I’ve hated the Astoria for as long as I can remember, with its godawful sound, terrible sightlines and general joyless hostility to the paying audience. The building is riddled with black-painted tunn[…]

God Save The Toddlers: Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.[…]

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The weather matters. Saturday 1st June: 8pm, and the sky out of my window is still fading pale blue, weightless, benevolent. A jubilee weekend of rain would be a symbolic down: but then, we are long used to finding a meaning in the rain. Not just w[…]

The Ring lives! I haven’t yet been in, but it’s still called The Ring and it still seems to be a pub, notwithstanding the repacement of the threadbare carpet with what appears to be hardwood flooring. The boxing pictures remain also. More[…]

10 things of recent vintage that i’ve been listening to:
conway – “lisa’s got hives” (from here)
rap-rock that won’t appeal to rap-rock fans — too much estrogen, too much, well, fun. it seems to me that the b[…]

The return of a popular feature! (No, not DUEL! That’s back tomorrow). I’ve found some more CDs I want to see the back of. They’ll be posted up on Alan’s Music Swap Shop tomorrow.
DAVID SYLVIAN – Dead Bees On A Cake: com[…]

The RIAA can just…no, no…we won’t get into that again. So, in a completely unsurprising move (perhaps only mildly shocking in just how long it took), The RIAA have finally sued Audio Galaxy, the peoples choice in the post-Napster f[…]