I haven’t had much luck with live music. During high school, it proved cost-effective and adolescently satisfying to define my tastes, myself, against the blockbuster pick-of-the-late-90s alternasomething concerts (Live, anyone?) I didn’t[…]

Vindicated! I honestly never in my life thought I’d come across anyone else who liked ‘Calling America’ by ELO, which I heard once on the radio driving somewhere in a car when I was like, 12 or something. Years later, it was still i[…]

Kelly Osbourne – More Than Life Itself
Shut Up is an album of loud rocking songs, no doubt about that, don’t mess with Kelly O, oh no! Track eleven is the one you really need to hear, a bombastic hard rock ballad, that could have been sung by[…]

My very rushed comments didn’t make it in though my kewl ballot did – anyway here is what I said about The Streets!
First of all the idea was that Mike Skinner was reinventing UK Garage, but perhaps understandably a music built on confide[…]

Everclear-Soccer Mom
The porn girl who “fucked in the bathroom of her highschool prom” and had a three some with her sister and her bf turns into a safe suburban republican “volvo driving soccer mom.” Instead of being upset, […]

Johnny Cash-Hurt
Trent Reznor hates, because he is young, and because to be young and hate sells records
Cash bleeds the novelty out of it, and resigns himself to an elder statesmans sadness.[…]

I am preparing my testimony for tomorrow’s Campus Crusade for Christ’s meeting, and this came on my head phones, thanks to a comp that I had just refound.
Thinking when this was made, in the time when Lou Reed was all about trannies, he[…]

I’ve just been waiting for some songs to be released, here are some I’ve liked whilst watching the Box and MTV.
Sarah Whatmore — Automatic — She stole or if you like, borrowed her ‘oh’s’ form J Lo’s &#[…]

Download This! – hey kids remember 2002! Also – hey kids remember NYLPM! Can’t speak for other contributors but I have been first busy then ill and the thought-coherence needed to post here has been beyond me. But now I’m (a b[…]

There is much to dislike about the erstwhile Fame Academy winner, not least his puppyish face which implores me not to put the bricks in the sack, tie the top and pitch it into the Thames. The fact that he isn’t just some sort of bland faceless[…]