Profoundest apologies for the Easter shutdown – nothing to do with religion, everything to do with leaving my job, the attendant hangover, and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to actually get the flat tidied up. I’ve also had the pedantic[…]

The Results Are In!: 00s worst pop decade ever. Obviously I don’t remotely agree but that’s not really here or there. It’s just an opportunity to share a nugget of data I discerned when spending most of this week putting all 975 or […]

PopNose9 (1.5M) Make that Wednesday evening – things are hectic here and will be until Friday morning, and which point I will reveal the IDs of BOTH these tracks! Bonus![…]

Pick up the new issue of When Saturday Comes and who’s that on page 34? Why, it’s TMFD’s own Dave Boyle with an article on the madness of escalating squad numbers – an article that may be familiar to this blog’s handful […]

PopNose8 (1.5M) Sorry for the PopNose delay. I’ll be moving to a one-per-two-days system for a little while as I sort out a job move and a new PC, which means this will be up until Wednesday morning.[…]

Slight Slate piece that can’t decide which way it’s jumping on the question of whether pop stars write their own songs. If they don’t really – as the writer implies – then surely it’s not their fault that the songs[…]

KILL ALL HIPPIES: Your web guide to Glasto Rage –
– A conspiracy against students.
– Web designer gets the blues.
– Oasis newsroom not happy.
– Some excellent ideas from XRRF
– BBC quote provides silver lining.
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WIR SIND HELDEN – “Guten Tag” (aka PopNose7): Jerky new-wave pop pastiche by a group who recently swept the German-equivalent Grammies. Judging from scrappy translations and the few English-language mentions the band has got, WSH&#8[…]

Today’s ILM Highlight.[…]

Andrew Rilstone on Cerebus 300: This is superb (and no, you don’t have to have been reading the comic to appreciate it – I haven’t been! – though knowing who/what Cerebus and Dave Sim are would help). It’s so good that I[…]