Pub adverts. As an integral part of the pub experience is drinking, it follows on logically that so is GOING FOR A WEE. In your favourite pub, you get to know the toilet as well as you know your favourite table and old mang regular. For example, the […]

POP-EYE 3/2/02
Oh pity the poor Pop-eye writer in the first three months of the year. No chart stability, a deluge of faceless no-mark new entries slapping in the top ten making the column long (and certainly longer the new NYLPM enforced limit of 50[…]

PAVEMENT — ‘We Dance’
My birthday was this past Saturday. I actually woke up around my official birthtime (7:34 AM EST) to the sound of my alarm clock bleating spitefully at me — ‘You moron, why’d you set your ala[…]

TEN SONGS WHICH WERE NOT WRITTEN BY THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS… is an I Hate Music special, now restored to its proper article status as part of a Freaky Trigger update. Also up we have the first C90 Go!, a series where writers review compilations in[…]

And why we’re talking FSA…they’re not playing, but their spirit of outrider psychedelia will be in full swing this October 10-12th at the 5th Terrastock (the mostly-annual festival of the Ptolematic Terrascope.) It’s back in […]

Flying Saucer Attack — ‘Sally Free and Easy’
My grandfather passed away this morning. The only reason I can sit here now (thoughts as collected as can be I suppose) writing in a pop weblog is the fact that his passing had been &#82[…]

This weekend’s soundtrack – for me at least.[…]

PUBS WHAT HAVE BEEN DONE UP. It always makes me chuckle when a dingey old man’s pub is tarted up a la Nu Shoreditch in relentless pursuit of the upwardly mobile drinker, and fails to quite shake off the old clientele. Such a Waterloo stalwar[…]

Pubs In The Digital Age: a cautionary tale. This lunchtime my workmates and I decided to head out for a pub lunch – no boss, not much work on, a great opportunity yes? No. We arrived at The Railway in Wheatley, which is one of those ‘vill[…]

So in a wonderful example of synergy or timing or conspiracy, the Village Voice has released the results of its ‘Pazz and Jop Poll’ the very same week as Them Strokes Fellers are being analyzed here on FT. Placing number two and all is ac[…]