No wait I take it all back!: “”Extending oneself beyond monosyllabic utterances is usually an indication one is more educated and learned,” said the researchers about analysing the average length of the words in each artist’s […]

Marcello is right: well, half-right. One of my biggest regrets last year was not finishing parts 2 and 3 of the ‘Death of Pop’ articles. The plan was to draw a line under the bullishly pro-pop attitudes we’d been espousing here, to […]

We do give a damn about our friends: intense excitement accompanies the new release of a split single by Clock Strikes Thirteen and The Clientele, covering one another’s songs. The Clientele are long-standing FT favourites of course, but for ad[…]

I want my ILM: if you’ve been having trouble getting onto ILM and ILE, this url might be more reliable for ILM (and this one for ILE.)[…]

Dave Popshots is right – this is very good. Captures nicely the mix of diffidence and enthusiasm you feel when you listen to records a lot, and asks some useful questions on the way.[…]

There’s too much love to go around these days
How much do you think I like music? Sometimes I get e-mails, angry about this or that, telling me I don’t like it at all. Sometimes I’m inclined to agree. Every now and then a poster pop[…]

The Strokes Special finally launches with my review of the album and the debut of Al’s new cartoon strip (watch out for the huge jpeg). And thanks to Ethan for the graphic beautifying the front page. On Wednesday we’ve got a great thinkpi[…]

CLUB SUSSED IS BACK
If you don’t know about this already, you might not know that Club Sussed is the name of the club run by the estimable Carsmile Steve and No-Nickname Pete, at which Steve and I are the resident DJs. It used to take place eve[…]

A big thanks to boom selection (which would be in the urgent and key sidebar if my template editing wasn’t crashing the browser – in other words GO THERE) for alerting us to the King of The Boots night last night – most fun I’[…]

Speaking of pub crawls and jukeboxes, I put to you the proposal for Pub Idol (following the success of Pub Brother/Trig Brother last year). The rules are as before – ten contestants and an eviction process – but the determining factor is […]