Live Forever
Pop music has always been an audiovisual medium, but documentary movies about pop have been rare, and successful ones rarer still. Two problems confront the film-maker wanting to do more than simply record a performance. The most interes[…]

My very rushed comments didn’t make it in though my kewl ballot did – anyway here is what I said about The Streets!
First of all the idea was that Mike Skinner was reinventing UK Garage, but perhaps understandably a music built on confide[…]

Download This! – hey kids remember 2002! Also – hey kids remember NYLPM! Can’t speak for other contributors but I have been first busy then ill and the thought-coherence needed to post here has been beyond me. But now I’m (a b[…]

that was a naughty bit of crap – via Blissblog, bloody excellent music weblog. No permalinks yet but the top story is about Chris Morris’ pastiche reggae 10″, which sounds to me like a tribute to the notorious Sex Boots Dread and &#[…]

KOMATROHN – “Mirrors And Chrome”
Simon Reynolds pointed out last year that neo-electro bands were busy making tracks not songs, which meant they didn’t ever really hit the heights of their 80s forebears. And Ronan Fitzgerald p[…]

Olympia Manchester Athens Cologne?: Pitchfork launches a singles-review weblog! With “no regard for age, popularity or genre”. (“Singles” in our download-friendly age meaning single tracks, of course.) Good idea, good format, […]

Slap Dee Barnes: another weblog I should be linking, why do I always (re)discover these things the day I update the sidebar? Some great song reviews and write-ups.[…]

Tom’s Top Ten
TATU – “How Soon Is Now?”
STEVIE WONDER – “He’s Misstra Know-It-All”
RANDY NEWMAN – “Love Story”
FLO DAN – “Big Mic Man”
PET SHOP BOYS – “Wh[…]

Real Music Martyrs – with seven reality-pop singles in the Top 40 it was almost inevitable that some scalp or other would be claimed, but oh the unalloyed joy – and for once RMM is dropping its neutrality – that this week’s RM[…]

Self-Promotion Time! My review of Britpop documentary Live Forever is in this month’s Sight And Sound – not on the website though so you’ll have to read it in the newsagent or! wait until the ‘Director’s Cut’ shows[…]