WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MASTER OF MAGNETISM?
 

 
The other day I started thinking about Magneto. A summary of Magneto’s comics career (as understood by me) illustrates the qualities and perils of a character-led approach to comics, I reckon[…]

Interview with Brian Higgins, aka Xenomania, that’s an interesting counterpoint to Marcello’s onslaught on pop (see below). Higgins turns out to be like a lot of other pop auteurs, trying to smuggle a bit of the other (other) into the cha[…]

We’ll be putting the totaliser on the front page during the week. Meanwhile the good news is that we’ve raised our first £30 already, with a staff member selling an unwanted Belle And Sebastian ticket to an anonymous benefactor. The[…]

The Square Table 3/ Usher – “Burn”
Pop Factor: 442 Controversy Score: 240
The plot of “Burn” is simple. It’s not working, is it? – Damn, it was working. Having ‘been there’, it’s hard not […]

Slink
The new pop revival – ITS REAL! (via Popjustice)
Music for the impatient (via Wisdom Goof) – reminds me of Marc Gascoigne’s classic “90 Songs In 90 Minutes” tape, though with more Blink 182 and less Zoviet France.
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Playlist Ghosts: I have played the four tracks from D-Generation’s first (only?) EP a handful of times. I have heard them far, far more often. There they were again when I scrolled down a folder of MP3s this morning – this is the fourth c[…]

We at Freaky Trigger are trying to raise money to help keep a struggling football club alive. The first steps on our leisurely journey towards £500 have already been taken with the launch of the FT Indie Amnesty.
As you are probably aware, many[…]

The new Natasha Bedingfield single (“These Words”) greys along in an unconvincing Dido-with-beats fashion until right at the end she coos “I love you, is that OK?” and the sun bursts through the clouds. It’s winsome but […]

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Sexy vegetarian (That ominous groaning you hear is the phrase “made history” being stretched to breaking point by IOL.)
Not Jazz.
I like what said the gramaphone says here about Daft Punk’s Franz Ferdinand mix – don[…]