An explanation is in order…
Freaky Trigger is a website about pop music and the people who listen to it. It’s free and independent, has no advertising, no set areas of coverage and it doesn’t even review records that often. What&#82[…]

Backstreet Boy Arrested. Of course a certain kind of rock station morning jock would follow this up with some sort of gag about crimes against music, but this is NYLPM. We have a soft spot for the Backstreet Boys, as previous “Shape Of My Heart[…]

The Prince Monolulu is back. I shall say no more until I have further explored, but if you are up the Warren Sreet way, why not pop in to see if this famed boozer of old have been resurrected properly or – as I fear – they’ve brough[…]

LISTLESSLY LISTING
I’m in my bedroom / office / apartment — clothes intermingle with compact discs and books in a disheveled orgy of non-productive capitalism. I’m looking at a contentious article recently published by Salon.com, w[…]

Nutter popstar given heave-ho by label, or as the BBC will have it “Mariah’s ‘£35m golden handshake’”. Well, poor love she’s had a rough time of it over the last fifteen years, what with single handed inventing dan[…]

INTO TANYA’S MAILBAG
I get a goodly amount of post, as you might imagine. Much of it centers on a particular question – “What kind of music do you like, then?”. As I believe I have said before, somewhere on this site, I hate m[…]

No smoking areas. I know these have reared their ugly heads before, and I know that there are arguments for and against both sides (not least that I know a number of people who have had smoking related illnesses recently). Nevertheless if there is on[…]

PROFESSIONS UNSUITED TO POPSTARS
1: Basement Jaxx : Doctors
This is not merely based on the fact that the two fellows from the Jaxx look almost as unhygenic as the inside of Badly Drawn Boys bobble hat. No, on their last single they asked the simple […]

TANYA’S ADVENT CALENDAR OF FILTH – SPECIAL
Chris de Burgh – A Spaceman Came Travelling
Okay, I know its a bit late, but this little bastard creapt up on me on Christmas day no less when I was cheering on the Nazi’s in The Soun[…]

TATTL, 3. The Dungeon Family Problem
Two artists nudge one another for positions on the lower end of any list I make – The Wu-Tang Clan and the Dungeon Family. Both late-release records by multi-member groups, neither of which I’ve had ti[…]