I like sweets and the KLF. I relax by listening to classic hip hop records from 1983 and watching Only Fools And Horses. On a bad day I may rate Toytown Techno as possibly the fourth greatest musical genre of all time. On other days I may listen to s[…]

AAARGGGH! Would someone please tell the Top Of The Pops producers to make sure the kids only clap on the 2nd and 4th beats of each bar? Yeah, I know it’s petty but surely I can’t be the only one annoyed by it? Some of those studio audienc[…]

The miscredited MP3 problem not only leads to ignominy for Freaky Trigger, but (far more importantly) leads to extreme annoyance for me. Perhaps Napster should have a rule whereby any incomplete songs should be removed from the owner’s shared f[…]

Ain’t Nuttin’ But A G Thang For Becks – fantastic! Apparently the newspaper New Nation claimed that David Beckham was “a walking tribute to Tupac Shakur”.
This news has been out a month, so why has no one jumped on it? […]

The Great Tune Robbery – in which the NME reports the “news” that the chords to Travis’ “Writing To Reach You” are the same as the chords to “Wonderwall”. This comes as no surprise to anyone who’s[…]

The emperor has no clothes. And he’s got a tiny dick: IndiePlanet‘s Mr Crankypants examines the MP3 situation. This section of his critique, focusing on the legal side of MP3s rightly finds that most legal MP3s are (literally) shit. The o[…]

Tom Cox has a go at sampling culture in the Friday Review, claiming one minute that nobody is using sampling to good effect, the next that nobody really pays attention to the charts, the next that all the interesting sampling takes place in the under[…]

Kool Keith is fucking crazy: review of Keith live in New York at Mired.[…]

And a much more concise post: a recommendation of Michael Bracewell’s “England Is Mine”, which fits in rather well with the theme for the current issue of Freaky Trigger.[…]

FIJI – “The Glue Hotel Tapes” (Impresario Records mini album)
FIJI – “4-Track Jesus” (b-side to “Pillshop” 7″ single)
I’ll always have a soft spot for Jamie Hince. As a member of indie also-[…]