www.reggae-riddims.com – Blimey! (thanks Tim)[…]

POP-EYE RINGTONE REVIEWS!
Forget this “singles” nonsense! The “kids” today rate their “pop” based on one thing only – how does it sound coming out your PHONE when you get a call and your “mates” a[…]

Eight Fragments For Barry Gibb: an excellent little essay by Mark Richard-San, about disco revisionism. The sort of thing I’d absolutely love to have run myself, actually.[…]

Mobos 2002: The nominees: like most UK awards there’s a faint tinge of the unneccessary about the MOBOs, and the polite fudge that “music of black origin” needn’t be “music made by black people” is typically Britis[…]

Pitchfork Link Of The Day (yeah sorry, to you and to P’fork actually) – the 2 Many DJs mix CD. Vaguely unsatisfying review – the summary I think is that he likes it but he’s worried it won’t last. A lot of reviewers on t[…]

Where Am I? I thought I’d better make some kind of announcement since Freaky Trigger hasn’t been updated for over a month. There is a decent backlog of articles building up but basically I’ve been too busy to give it much attention.[…]

I don’t think much of the idea of ‘guilty pleasures’ but there’s guilt and there’s guilt, isn’t there? There’s guilt for something you might be doing wrong – breaking some invisible law of taste, maybe […]

Tot of the pops: also from the low-on-puns Guardian is this creepy article about dressing your sprogs in band t-shirts. ” “Usually, it’s someone who’s been a little bit cool in the past,” says Susan Haire of Baby Munchki[…]

Blogging the Guardian’s pop pages used to be the easiest thing in the world, back when T.Cox was in charge. Modern music was unforgiveably awful and our only hopes were the Wondermints, Cox said every week before leaving to write a book about g[…]

It strikes me that the presence of the bust invites two conjectures, one or both of which may be correct.
1. Jeremy Bentham, renowned philosopher of utilitarianism, looked very like Tim Rice.
2. There is a benighted pub somewhere called The Tim Rice […]