Slap Dee Barnes: another weblog I should be linking, why do I always (re)discover these things the day I update the sidebar? Some great song reviews and write-ups.[…]

BACK IN TANYA’S MAILBOX
“Hi,
Your article on DJ’s was verry well put. I’ve always said that
calling a
DJ a musician (which some ninnys do) is like calling a waiter a chef.
Some disgruntled jazz musician”
That may well[…]

Tom’s Top Ten
TATU – “How Soon Is Now?”
STEVIE WONDER – “He’s Misstra Know-It-All”
RANDY NEWMAN – “Love Story”
FLO DAN – “Big Mic Man”
PET SHOP BOYS – “Wh[…]

Real Music Martyrs – with seven reality-pop singles in the Top 40 it was almost inevitable that some scalp or other would be claimed, but oh the unalloyed joy – and for once RMM is dropping its neutrality – that this week’s RM[…]

PUT SOME ZIPS ON THE FLAMING LIPS
I have nothing against children’s stories, as long as they don’t involve some magical instrument or other. I do however have something against musicians using their decidedly non-magical instruments to ma[…]

Self-Promotion Time! My review of Britpop documentary Live Forever is in this month’s Sight And Sound – not on the website though so you’ll have to read it in the newsagent or! wait until the ‘Director’s Cut’ shows[…]

SIGUR R?S – ( )
Come on people, did we not learn our lesson with Bjork? Iceland is full of evil, evil people who think nothing of drinking a skin full of Eagle Lager and pitching themselves off of buildings. Whilst I have nothing again heavy dr[…]

I’m a big fan of cheeky charming chappies Blazin’ Squad, AND NOW I KNOW WHY!
NB – this info is from Popbitch. Take your salt and sprinkle it over your chips of disbelief as you will…
“Russ Ballard of 70s prog-rock band A[…]

Electric 6-Danger! High Voltage! (Les Rhythmes Digitales Thin White Duke Remix)
When I was younger and danced less I think at this point in my life if I was keen on finding a song for a specific feeling (I’m not) I’d have listened to Gra[…]

CD:UK Hotshots – the moral decline of pop continues apace a.k.a. set the videos! Plus – Richard X meets Liberty X (RX not exactly taxed on the “new ideas” front but great to have “Being Boiled” back in the charts);[…]