Self Indulgent? Never… Moderately amusing review of last night’s Manitoba / Four Tet date at Edinburgh’s Belle Angele venue. Notable mostly for classic local paper take on contemporary electronic music, complete with awful puns (&#8[…]

Where did the music go?: you’ll probably all have seen this Jaron Lanier essay, if you’ve been browsing the sidebar links here – it’s been talked about in Michaelangelo Matos’ and Nate Patrin’s blogs and probably s[…]

Who’d have thought it. My standard test for detecting top-notch music writing, and I’m sure it’s a common one, is whether or not it makes me want to hear the record under discussion. In this piece for Village Voice by Frank Kogan my[…]

radiohead can just…eat a dick. should that go on nylpm?[…]

blah blah ashanti blah blah another friggin ja rule single blah blah mary j blah blah anonymous neptunes thug single blah blah nelly blah blah EMINEM then more crap.[…]

“You can use this space to talk about how the Big Tymers are back…ha ha, just kidding…Big Tymers aren’t back!” Aggressively mediocre records like Project English and Hood Rich don’t help. (But is it true the latt[…]

Fischerspooner say UK gigs will ‘eclipse’ Star Wars: pop band in dry ice machine shocker![…]

George W Bush ‘is stalking me’ – Moby: why famous people should not be allowed websites.[…]

The end of the single? Yes, yes, we’ve heard it all before. Andy Gill, writing for The Independent marks the fiftieth anniversary of the British pop charts by charting its supposed demise. There are some interesting points made here, but the ov[…]

Eminem threatens fans who upload his music onto Internet: I was going to let one of the more regular writers comment on this, but no one seems interested in doing so. I’m somewhat conflicted on this. On the one hand, he certainly has a point[…]