Dump Her Fran!: Travis complain about “celebration of mediocrity” shocker – but the real reason for Fran Healy’s wrath at Pop Idol is soon revealed…[…]

Blowoutmagazine.com sent us a snarky letter about the Strokes spesh which I’ll run here when I pull it out of my e-mail folder at home. If you too were disgusted by FT’s wallowing in the trough of corporate hype then you might enjoy this […]

A Rush and a Push: have we linked this one yet? So many music blogs, so little time!! Mmmm, nice design. Good commentary too.[…]

Bootlegs, remixes and sampling madness: companion site for the essential Boom Selection, while that top resource redesigns.[…]

UK Garage In 2001: Tim Finney’s look at the scene kicks off this week’s Freaky Trigger update, which also includes Pete’s review of the King Of The Boots club, and Douglas Wolk providing the second instalment of C90Go!, the mixtape […]

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Freaky Trigger – remarkably – is three in March. I’d like to do something to commemmorate that, and here’s what I’ve come up with.
What is FT all about? Records, mostly. Not just the records themselves &#8[…]

The Strokes Special Part II (and yes, that is it): articles on the Strokes from Nitsuh (talking about the band’s eighties connection), Stevie T (on why he doesn’t like the band), and Ned (on why Julian and the lads don’t cut it as a[…]

Is this your CD collection?: they stole our idea!! Well, ILM’s long-running “12 CD” trope, anyway, which here gets a Guardian style going-over. It’s quite a funny article but leaves a bad taste in the mouth – I bet Stuar[…]

Will reveals ‘superstar’ image on debut single cover – since our usual Ananova correspondent is clearly infatuated with Will Young it falls on me to ask the key question – does this person, o readers, look like a “true s[…]

Kym Marsh vs Jonathan King: a short – and possibly even controversial – article by Mark Sinker on Jonathan King, and Hear’Say, and showbiz cynicism.[…]