Gutterbreakz: good new music blog, says (probably rightly) that the Melody Maker was the paper of record back in the turn-of-the-90s-day, though I don’t remember its dance music coverage being any cop, or any any until that fantastic Damascene […]

A gorilla learning the meaning of sincerity through a child’s dictionary and a Kevin Rowland solo record, and learning the meaning of music by the usual method viz. bashing things until it sounds good. There’s a curious poignancy to how t[…]

I had been secretly and sadly proud of holding my own in the ILX Premiership Predictions League, until I realised that my lower-mid table place is in fact the worst of anyone who’s joined in all four rounds. Despite nodding heartily along to Da[…]

The Original Soundtrack is Geeta’s fine and recently revived weblog, which has a fair bit of music content and which I’m linking partly because Geeta is going to be editing the sixth (yes sixth!) Freaky Trigger weblog, on science and tech[…]

Edward O was disappointed by this on ILX, making the point that the first singles from the Sugababes’ last two albums (‘Overload’ and ‘Freak Like Me’) were contemporary pop landmarks, and ‘Hole In The Head’ s[…]

FAST FOOD ROCKERS – “Say Cheese (Smile Please)” A quick warning entry to alert you to the year’s least necessary release – Fast Food Rockers follow-up single. Several focus group participants muttered darkly that FFR w[…]

The Flamingo, The Pushme-Pullyu and the Mao – all pieces in variant chess according to this site. I’m fond of house rules and rule variants in theory but they often seem rather forced: most games have players for whom knowing and tweaking[…]

Pet Shop Boys Track By Track: a remarkable labour of love PSB fan-site, essentially one of those Revolution In The Head-style career archaeologies, except online and free-of-charge. The song information is interesting, though my favourite bit of the […]

Reality Blurred: a Reality TV weblog (US shows and networks only though). I’ve been having a little sniff around for TV weblogs, Google hasn’t been very helpful though, loads of right-wing sites rooting around looking for ‘bias&#821[…]

I was having a sniff around for information on Punch Taverns, who are Britain’s second biggest pub owners but who don’t brand their pubs as aggressively as do Wetherspoons. I was doing this because Wetherspoons’ latest results are p[…]