Piano Magic’s Glen Johnson on mostly their last album Artist’s Rifles, but with this “interesting” take on pop:
“On the contrary, I listen to it for entertainment. It makes me laugh. Particularly R ‘n’ B stu[…]

The Pixies were officially enshrined as the “most important rock band of the 80s” when Kurt Cobain let slip their influence on Nirvana. (Of course, he also trumpeted the Melvins, so what did he know?) But I don’t think anyone real[…]

What was little Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle thinking? Boas and lipstick and leopard print, oh my: a long way from The Scratch Orchestra, that. (Or maybe not, if punk was the liberator of the secret knowledge of production and perf[…]

Moloko, “Sing It Back (Herbert’s Tasteful Dub)”
The first thing that seduces you about a Herbert production is the sensuousness of noise sounds. There’s very little here in the way of “natural” sounds, maybe the d[…]

Sugar – JC Auto (Live)
(In the middle of downloading my favorite 100 singles of the 90s, so be prepared for more of these [mwuhahaha…]) Even through a pair of 4Q (4Q?? Did they get these off the back of a pickup?) computer speakers, thi[…]

Everything’s Gone Green…
So, have we really got something here? Something that’s got the proverbial zeitgeist by the short and curlies? We’re (being who, Jess? Music geeks basically, the people who support the fag end of th[…]

Pitchfork Inna (Very Confused) Dancehall Stylee. First things first: Mo Wax’s Now Thing comp. (another timely Pitchfork review) is dub only in the most tangential sense: that it features (mostly) instrumental “versions” of ragga da[…]

Ethan on ILM flailing to describe a condition I’ve been experiencing (and therefore trying to explicate) for some time now. Listening right now to the new(est) Unwound record – and yes, it’s every bit as good as everyone makes it o[…]

It’s not music but… I’m enough of a narcissist and a miserablist to note that Chuck Jones died the day after my birthday. For a person with few heroes – but heroes passionately revered and believed in – it’s a cr[…]

Rites of Spring – “End on End”
The one lesson almost every emo band who followed in their wake (which is, well, all of them) seems to forget: thou shalt not not rock.[…]