The Jubilee Stuff – the fourth and penultimate section.[…]

Let’s Push Things Forward: if people are going to keep on talking about acid house, then a crucial point to remember is that over here the acid fuse wasn’t lit by the records, it was lit by the clubs – Balearic Beats, as the style w[…]

The Jubilee Stuff – part three.[…]

Who Needs Eminem? – apart from its odd conviction that an Australian rock band can tell us anything much about how British bands think and work, Christian Hoard’s piece is a pretty fair summing-up of the British rock (and rockpress) dilem[…]

“Ours is better silence: it’s digital. Theirs is only analogue.”: more on current top music news story, Cage Vs Batt.[…]

pearls that are his eyes: a very welcome return for Kathleen (my current longest-standing mixtape debt, in a highly competitive field). First Josh Blog comes back , then Vain, Selfish, Lazy, now Pearls…it’s like 2000 all over again! Surel[…]

The Jubilee Stuff (2): the second part of The Pinefox’s state-of-the-nation address.[…]

It’s as predictable that I’d carp at a bad UK hip-hop review in Pitchfork as it is that the zine would run one in the first place. But actually I’m not complaining about the mark, or the verdict really – I’ve not been th[…]

vain, selfish & lazy is back (with a list – typical Fred!) – the music weblog revival is rolling! It struck me yesterday that NYLPM has been around – and continuously updating, I think the longest it’s gone without an ent[…]

Indie MP3 – Keeping C86 Alive! – ph34r this site! Well OK don’t, it’s very nice actually – a bloke called Tom putting up one old skool indie-pop track per week – Tallulah Gosh, June Brides, Felt, The Servants&#8230[…]