No Greenspun = more site work, as I get stuck into the FT archives again. The cherries have mostly been picked from this particular tree but here are a couple of old pieces, with hopefully more to follow. The Auteurs album I loved at the time but har[…]

This article might be an unusual one for Freaky Trigger. It won’t offer much in the way of analysis; it won’t put forward any grand or foolish theories; personal reminiscence will be kept to a minimum; I have no expert knowledge to drop a[…]

12ftlizards is a Yahoo! Group for the discussion of the future of ILM/ILE boards in the event of them vanishing. It’s also there for any other admin-style questions that might come up. Membership is open so feel free to join.[…]

Greenspun.com has now been down for 36 hours, meaning no ILM and ILE. My assumption is that eventually one of these outages will be permanent (maybe even this one!) or that the ‘restructuring’ of greenspun.com will finally happen and it&#[…]

Here’s Gavin Mueller writing in the OHJ Blog (get your permalinks fixed!) “I think sampling is one of the most potent forms of artistic expression, especially in our post-modern world.”. You just know he’s going to mention DJ […]

DUEL! 2002 — Round 2 Match 4

Duel! 2002 – Round 2 Match 4

Which of these artists is worse?

Limp Bizkit

David Gray

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Over once again to Mr Pete Baran to set the scene for today&#8[…]

An unexpected discussion of Sue Wilkinson’s “You’ve Got To Be A Hustler If You Want To Get On”, of all things. Black Box Recorder nicked all their ideas from this song.[…]

Boom Selection covers the Sugababes’ hit single from the bootleg perspective – excellently put together, intelligent, and it’s got mp3s of every relevant track – FT’s piece is put entirely to shame. Go, read, and downloa[…]

Pop-Eye Special: so huge was this week’s Pop-Eye (a paean to the Sugababes’ awesome “Freak Like Me” single) that it turned into an article in its own right, and joins Sterling’s excellent Tweet review in a new site updat[…]

The Acceptable Face of Rockism: if you spend the odd bored hour at work scanning the Top 5 lists at rockcritics.com, you might recognise the name Nate Patrin and his unusually literate contributions. Anyway this is his weblog.[…]