PRIMAL SCREAM — ‘Miss Lucifer’
Hold on to your hats! Or sides. ‘Skinny girl / Dressed in black / Leather boots / Nazi hat / Tattooed panther / [something something]* / Sexy dancer / Immaculate grace / SHAKE IT BABY!’ &#8[…]

Supertroupers: from the same edition of the Guardian, a quiet demonstration of how it should be done, as Peter Paphides interviews two of ABBA. An experienced pop writer taking on and taking seriously a group he clearly has great affection for &#8211[…]

The Poet and the Princess: Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Shakira, a featurette that must have got the commissioning editors salivating. Actually, Colombia’s most famous novelist turns in a celebrity puff piece that would have had Hello! blushing. I[…]

MISS KITTIN AND THE HACKER — ‘Frank Sinatra’
DJ ASSAULT — ‘Big Booty Hoes And Sluts Too’
Motor and muse for nu-electro she might be, but you could easily mistake Miss Kittin’s autocue blankness for genuine va[…]

Tom’s Top Ten:
MISS KITTIN AND THE HACKER – “Frank Sinatra”
MINNIE RIPERTON – “Les Fleurs”
NOTORIOUS BIG – “Hypnotise”
ERIC B AND RAKIM – “Eric B Is President”
DJ DIPPA VS […]

Freaky Trigger Reminder Zone: just to remind you that you’ve only got a couple of weeks left to do your follow-up articles for 102 Beats That (if you’re taking part) and your Focus Group votes (if you want to take part) – links are […]

God Save The Toddlers: Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.[…]

The return of a popular feature! (No, not DUEL! That’s back tomorrow). I’ve found some more CDs I want to see the back of. They’ll be posted up on Alan’s Music Swap Shop tomorrow.
DAVID SYLVIAN – Dead Bees On A Cake: com[…]

Top Ranking – the genius of Soul Jazz, by me, leading off the first proper Freaky Trigger update in a while (moving house had got me out of the swing of things, sorry). There’s also Anthony Easton’s analysis of the country music vid[…]

Freezing to Death in the Nuclear Bunker is Jody Beth Rosen’s “rockblog” which for once in my life I stumbled upon not because it links to me! (I followed a link on rockcritics.com’s Top Fives). And as she says herself, she too[…]