Bootlegs, remixes and sampling madness: companion site for the essential Boom Selection, while that top resource redesigns.[…]

UK Garage In 2001: Tim Finney’s look at the scene kicks off this week’s Freaky Trigger update, which also includes Pete’s review of the King Of The Boots club, and Douglas Wolk providing the second instalment of C90Go!, the mixtape […]

THE GLOUCESTER ARMS – Gloucester Green, Oxford
The last time I was in The Gloucester Arms in Oxford was probably about seven years ago. Going back for a wet Monday afternoon session last week I noticed that the place had not changed one bit. Th[…]

POP-EYE 17/2/02
Due to circumstances beyond our control (mainly including lots of drink and Enrique Iglesias still being number one) there was no Pop-Eye last week. Now I don’t intend to pull double shift this week, but I do understand that wit[…]

B-JERK
?Its Oh So Quiet? whispers the Icelandic pop pixie on the album ?Post?. Not for long though if Bjork is around, nothing remains quiet once her growly shriek comes into play. Akin to the kind of siren they install in Nuclear Power Stations to w[…]

P.O.D. – “Youth of the Nation”
Wes Borland’s throbbing pseudo-tuned guitar + the choir from Pat Benatar’s “We Belong” + the social consciousness of Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch’s “Wildside&#8[…]

On Fame and Misfortune: Blowing It, Channel 4, Sat Feb 16 2002, the tale was retold of Naomi Campbell going naked to ban fur, then stalking down a cat-walk in nothing but. Cue outraged PETA spokesgirl: “How you be crying at the anal electrocuti[…]

Emergency Ward
Art‘s “Ugly People with Fancy Hairdos”–just the intro, please, none of that “we’re all boat people” stuff–is one of the most vicious songs I’ve ever heard, a sneering indictment of […]

102 Beats That
Freaky Trigger – remarkably – is three in March. I’d like to do something to commemmorate that, and here’s what I’ve come up with.
What is FT all about? Records, mostly. Not just the records themselves &#8[…]

The kids are alright. They certainly want their disco if this story is anything to go by. Fridays in Edinburgh the schools finish at lunchtime, so there are gatherings of the tribes across the south side of town. Nu metal kids and goths are hanging a[…]