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.[…]

Pop-Eye, 28th April 2002
Truly dreadful No.1 hits are rarer than you’d think – leaving out charity singles and Westlife’s perennially useless stool-pop, I can’t think of a really ghastly, what-has-gone-wrong-with-our-species t[…]

102 Beats That: the last twelve pieces, wrapping up the first leg of this feature. Enjoy them, and come back in June for the second stage. (Oh yeah, also link this feature you bastards! I think it’s good and deserves a wider audience.)[…]

CRAZY, SEXY, COOL
1. In Finland, two songs followed us up and down the country — Simply Red’s ‘Fairground’ and TLC’s ‘Waterfalls’. I didn’t listen to much soul music then but the contrast was obvious &#[…]

102 Beats That – part 5 of 6. Final entries up on Saturday morning.[…]

DUEL 2002! Round 2 Match 3

Duel! 2002 – Round 2 Match 3

Which of these two bands is worse?

Travis

Badly Drawn Boy

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Pete says:’Travis are the other four men in a police line-up. […]

THE MECHANICS OF DESTRUCTION: Herbert’s new – expressly political – album, available for download.[…]

I agree with everything Christian Hoard has to say about the new Wilco album, but his first paragraph is so glib, bitter, ungenerous, and (I think, in places) scared that it spoils the rest somehow. And, yes, part of me wonders and worries if this is[…]