According to Pierre at ExitTheApple.com, Hip Hop is dead. WhatEVAH.
Stevie Nixed’s Top Eleven! The Coup – Me and Jesus the Pimp… Missy Elliott – Work It TLC – Girl Talk Foo Fighters – All My Life MOP – Cold […]

Released on Christmas Eve in 1990, in a shrewd move to get a number one thanks to the loyalty of Maiden fans, I doubt if anyone who wasn’t already a fan bought it. Still the only chart topping single I’ve ever bought (though I can’t[…]

“A time has come to make a decision, are we in this thing alone? Or are we in it……together!” It’s the kind of spoken voice sample that you might associate with some massive rave anthem. But the strained and looped respon[…]

Michaelangelo Matos goes out to dinner and hears some music there.[…]

XZHIBIT – “Choke Me, Spank Me (Pull My Hair)”
X’s paean to rough sex fails because a)the hump-thump beat is strictly missionary-position; b)X sounds far too polite about it (and isn’t creepy enough to work that to his ad[…]

Whirlybird: a familiar and pleasing aesthetic – wonder who’s behind it? Great to see Mike Jones’ Boris Becker piece get an online airing, too![…]

It Makes No Difference…: it’s a music weblog we haven’t linked yet! Olav loves his music and writes a lot about it – sorry Olav for the most generic description over but it’s 9.25 PM and I’m still in the office. Do[…]

Hey, do you remember when R&B used to get called “man-hating” all the time? That was a strange one. Songs about useless boyfriends are a barnacled pop tradition, but strap them onto platinum beats and suddenly masculinity is under sie[…]

Calling All NYLPM/FT Contributors! – and regular readers too, actually! The end of the year is upon us and once again Freaky Trigger is going to attempt some year-in-review thing. What I’d like you to do if you’ve got a moment is se[…]

Charles pulls pint in a new village pub: aka the Poet Laureate in Poundbury, Charles’ own postman-pat styled heritage village. Making the Poet Laureate possibly the most expensive theme pub in the world. Ananova declines to answer certain impor[…]