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 […]

Well our slack timing has done us a favour here. Because all things Spice are knocking around again, and we aren’t completely succumb by nostalgia to justify its position. And has history been kind to the Spice Girls, and to Who Do You Think Yo[…]

“an inch of hair that represents infinite evil”:
vanity fair’s rich cohen attempts to reclaim the “toothbrush”[…]