So if, as Ned says in the comments box to my blog post, yr online self is necessarily dissipated these days, why not use blogging as a way of bringing it together? If I feel this ‘works’ I’ll try to do it regularly – this is a[…]

Things most people know about European languages  – One – Spanish for ‘beer’ is ‘cerveza’. Two – English is not in the same language family as French and Spanish. When looking at other European words for beer it is appa[…]

The fact that this intriguing (and personally flattering!) rockcritics.com “symposium on music blogging” has slipped out with so little discussion is itself some kind of proof of its central, slightly mournful hypothesis – that the[…]

Radio 1 have an album of cover versions out for their 40th anniversary. The gimmick is that a top pop act of today covers a song from each of the forty years the station has been going.
Stylus Magazine’s “Singles Jukebox” blog is re[…]

RDC was my editor at NME, and predecessor at the Wire, which has just put up a page of tributes from people who worked with him, including mine[…]

4. Bizarre Inc – I’m Gonna Get You
I played my first gig in the autumn of 1992. Myself and my fellow bandmate Karina told our army of loyal fans (Helen, Emma, Helen and Emma’s little sisters, and Helen and Emma’s little sister[…]

So a North Carolinan man decides to store his amputated leg in a barbeque smoker. This story should really be going somewhere else. But instead we have the trials and feud over the ownership of the leg when someone goes and sells the darn smoker.
T[…]

This week’s tracks are on a “Sixties” theme. Go here to join in with the Pop Open and follow the commentary.
Please don’t reveal anything about the tracks in the comments box![…]

In my never-ending battle against the evils of music, I occasionally come across allies who often are unaware of how helpful they are to me. Take the US Immigration services who have decided that The Pipettes are TOO DANGEROUS to be allowed into the […]

Fashion brands come and go but for the non-fashion-literate the world of clothing can be a baffling and intimidating one. As a marketing professional I could probably outline the distinctive brand values of Top Man, Gap or Uniqlo – as a prospec[…]