The Freaky Trigger Pop Panel: Do you have
– the ability to receive MP3-size files over email, once or twice a week?
– an interest in pop and a desire to comment on current records?
If so you might want to join the Pop Panel* – email[…]

Humble Pi: Portugal v Greece remains my favourite game of Euro2004 so far (that I’ve seen). Partly that’s because it seemed a fine clash between opposing approaches; partly it’s because the underdog won; partly it was the Greeks&#82[…]

I’m off on holiday tomorrow. Pre-hols linkage:
Lacunae has MP3s now. Of course we were all reading it anyway.
Party music for jaded cynics – clubbing blog, promises details of ‘goings-on’.
Chuck Eddy on country duo Big & […]

The Best New Music Blogs
Bloggers get tired or bored or busy or run out of things to say or just vanish – it’s the nature of the game. Luckily there are plenty more being started. All these made their first post sometime this year.
The To[…]

Fine Ray Charles piece by Marcello. (Update – also explore and listen to Tofu Hut’s memorial post)
I don’t know Ray Charles’ work well enough; another example of the (slightly shameful if hardly unique to me) syndrome where so[…]

The Streets, by Me: enormous thanks to Mr. Matos, not only for asking me to do this but also for his stern but excellent editing when I turned out to be embarrassingly ring-rusty in the ‘writing longer pieces’ arena.[…]

The Number One Songs In Heaven: new MP3 blog (they endure despite the yousendit catastrophe!) specialising in 60s – 80s soul, dance and funk – very welcome I think![…]

Notes On The International Workshop On Molecular Gastronomy – publogger Chris pointed me at this marvellous article, a cabinet of future-food curiosities including:
– foie gras and butter chantilly
– the science of making the perfec[…]

Foolishness Update: This has come true. Even aside from Mr.Boyle’s excellent points, as a marketer I’d like to add one more: if the defining characteristic of your ‘brand’ is that its best assets defect to another ‘brand[…]

Eau De Leathery Child-Man, anyone?[…]