I seem to have spent three years of this weblog trying to think of different ways to describe ever drier beats and ever sharper synth lines: R’n’B — even British R’n’B, who’d have thought it! – just keeps get[…]

The admirable: Madonna’s thinking big, and she’s working through a sound not playing magpie. It’s a pretty individual sound, too: Madonna’s time-smoothed voice, funkless rhythm’n’blips from Mirwais, and soothing sh[…]

To call the new Scooter single ‘new’ is to make language blush, so let’s say instead that “Weekend!” is the most recent Scooter single. Or let’s say that it’s the most recent draft of the Scooter single, anot[…]

Tom’s Top Twelve!
Lizard power! Slight change of format as instead of just a list I’ll make a stab at mentioning when and why these tracks struck me this week. New stuff first – Mad Anju‘s “Cellular Minutes” is sur[…]

My review of Live Forever, now up on Freaky Trigger – as is Mark Pitlyk’s impressionistic Boards Of Canada piece and – finally – Anthony’s piece on Morrissey and his Latino fanbase. More new content later this week, incl[…]

Foxes And Hedgehogs; or; What’s The Dilly? — Simon Reynolds talks about my end-of-year stuff on his weblog, and in turn that spawns a great big ILM Thread, and what do I say? ‘Wow’, mostly.
Well, OK, I can be a bit more articu[…]

I can’t promise anything for Paris or Munich residents but if you’re in or around New York or London then the 21st March 2003 holds a great party opportunity for you! In New York you’ll be helping a good cause – Doctors Withou[…]

As should be fairly obvious from the lack of Freaky Trigger activity recently, I’m finding it harder and harder to keep my editorial head above water – so pieces are running late, themes are dying off, projects getting delayed or abandone[…]

God bless the free market!: caution, contains picture which might disturb.[…]

DENIM – It Fell Off The Back Of A Lorry
It’s not all gloom round mine, obviously. One thing I’ve been listening to a lot is Disky’s wonderful Wow…That Was The 70s! box set, and in turn that’s opened a window into m[…]