102 Beats That – part 4 of 6, another 12 entries now up.[…]

Cult of Personality: somewhat embarrassing to be blogging this, but anyway, here’s an interview. With me. If you like you can compare it to the OHJ’s interviews with Ryan Pitchfork and George Splendid for terrible insights into the mental[…]

UK acts disappear from US charts: this is the kind of thing that gets the papers here terribly excited. Does it really mean anything? Not much – there’s been a gap between British and American public tastes for ages, and the stuff selling[…]

And some which went out at the group stage…
Faithless star to compose World Cup track: (Will be “basic”, apparently. This is thankfully not Maxi Jazz.)
David Beckham wanted for new World In Motion remix: (Exactly what it says. Keith[…]

Saint George’s Day Special! In a spirit of sportsmanship and patriotism NYLPM presents the Bottom Five World Cup pop stories so far, in descending order of awfulness. Thanks to John for finding them all!
1. Dublin group to provide Ireland&#8217[…]

102 Beats That: part 3 of 6.[…]

It’s a third world country!! The theme of my pubgoing weekend was pub shortages – first off in the Bricklayers Arms on Friday night where the grumpiest barman in the world announced that the pub was out of vodka. B-b-b-but there’s a[…]

angry robot: music review weblog with an electronic emphasis. Looks good.[…]

Tim F says some interesting things here about production in pop, and the way R&B and pop advocates concentrate on it. Somewhere on ILM there’s a thread from a year or so ago where I started questioning the sound-focus of pop writing (and t[…]

DUEL! 2002 — Round 2 Match 2

Duel 2002! – Round 2 Match 2

Which Of These Bands Is Worse?

Nickelback

The Stereophonics

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