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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What can we say? This is the Duel! readers have surely bee[…]

Speaking of the “new rock”, there’s some interesting chit-chat going on at the OHJ blog (start with Scott Plagenhoef’s post about halfway down and then work up) about whether having the Strokehivestripes in the charts is a goo[…]

THE WILDBUNCH – “Danger! High Voltage!”
I think they think they’re joking, but they’re not. Maybe when they recorded the track – “Hey! Guys! Let’s do a disco song!” “A disco song?” &#8[…]

102 Beats That: things get somewhat more left-field in part 2 of this six-part feature.[…]