Get This Indie Out of Our Charts
How in God’s name are Wilco at number eight this week? Easy: they’ve crossed over to the hippie/frat audience. (This portion may not have much resonance for our British readers, who are apparently untroubl[…]

A small and curious exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
This is an eclectic show. How could it not be? A wide remit of three hundred years and the only filter is sex.
The photos and paintings of the women fall into distinct groups. The first […]

The Square Table: 2/ The Ordinary Boys – “Talk Talk Talk”
Pop Rating: 407 Controversy Score: 204 Length:
Yelling the words “grey and boring” in your chorus is tempting fate, and sure enough fate rears up and grabs the[…]

I am going to say a bit more about Mean Girls later (actually I am going to say a LOT more about Mean Girls later) but first an observation. There is a character called Janis Ian in Mean Girls. That’s it. It is completely apropos to nothing. Oh[…]

In The Beginning…: in this month’s Edge magazine Stephen Poole says some interesting things about how games begin. He contrasts them with other cultural forms, where the intro or opening scenes or first paragraphs often try to make as muc[…]

“Peace and Love… or nothing at all”: trolls (or critics?) make poor George Michael shut his web forum. A salutary tale for these ILX-less times.
Incidentally – a pitiful plea here – if you’re among the people who&#[…]

Hi-Fi Technology Failure Turns to Booze[…]

This is nepotism not music but oh well…
GO AND VISIT MY BROTHER’S BLOG.
k thx.
cheap larff at expense of well-known music site, c/o Clap Clap Blog. I know we shouldn’t, but it’s been ages.
Jess finishes his tour of duty. Thank[…]

Early Music Reviews (it’s long, I’m sorry)
I got this site off of Last Plane to Jakarta, and have been listening to it all morning. The idea of historic sound being only 100 years old, the idea of John Phillip Sousa to John Cage seems so […]

I’ve been thinking some more about the whole issue of player agents.
A friend who works in football said ‘why would a club pay a player’s agent?’ I thought about this, and the only answer I could come up with was because its e[…]