This week’s tracks are from the NOUGHTIES. No reveals in the comments box please!
Track 1:
http://freakytrigger.s3.amazonaws.com/audio/pop_open/Noughties1.mp3
Track 2: http://freakytrigger.s3.amazonaws.com/audio/pop_open/Noughties2.mp3
Track 3[…]

The idea behind Steve Niles comic and the subsequent film is so delicious (vampires in an Alaskan town where the sun doesn’t come up for a month) that it sort of writes itself. The problem is you should never let films write themselves, as cell[…]

This month’s Poptimist column is basically a review of the Britney Spears album. I have slightly mixed feelings about it (the column not the album, which is a TOP POP SMASHER) – some of the ideas in the piece are “notational”[…]

so i was watching boyz II men’s tep 20 R&B ballads of all time on TFM, and one of them was janet jackson’s odd, low-key sexmumble of a song, “any time any place”, and in the video there was a vinyl record playing on the turntable,[…]

Philip Sherburne’s techno year-end review in Pitchfork: because he’s writing for a potentially non-clubbing audience, Sherburne keeps things simple and top-level. Because he’s an fine and perceptive writer, he’s able to do th[…]

it’s a reflection of the way i read — fast skim and skip x multiple reread — that i catch onto these i think: fragments in a book which exactly transport you to another, not for reasons of “hommage” (a word i dislike: it[…]

HAIR, sprouting from a new location. Hosted by Mark. What has gone before? (And why?) Britney has a plan. Kat’s entirely explicable Victorian hair fixation and a dubious graph. Magnus’s doffable clothing. New Seeker’s Pinball Wizard. The Teen Forecast. 2 Unlimited. Katie susses sunseed. And announcing the Midweek Number One…

Hope to have time to blog the various gastronomic delights of our weekend in San Sebastian / Donostia soon. But just to bear in mind that this small Spanish town and its environs have more Michelin stars than anywhere else in the world. You can pick […]

This evening at 7PM on Resonance FM, we’re proud to announce the return of Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop, our hour-long radio show which mixes talk, music, insight and foolishness in arbitrary amounts.
Here’s what the scheduler s[…]

7. Mello Core – Good Feeling 
Another great transition here – the final note of ‘Something Good’ dies out, exhausted after the Saints’ techno onslaught. In floats a soothing female voice over dreamy strings: “And […]