Nitsuh (of ILM fame) reviews Aesop Rock and makes it sound pretty good. Unfortunately the quotes Dave provides have made me never want to hear the record ever in the whole rest of my life. This is a bit unfair (though the Aesop Rock track I downloade[…]

A rock version of Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas is a long-cherished project of mine. Like most of my long-cherished projects, somebody’s gone and done it while I sat on my arse: hats off to Jonathan Valania for this magnificent[…]

Freaky Trigger Needs YOU: a while back I was planning to redesign NYLPM and turn it into something different, and I wanted writers. Several people got in touch. Then all sorts of bad things happened and the project fell apart. But now NYLPM is back o[…]

So Solid Crew recruit more members: thirty was not enough. One of them is Trigger off TV’s Only Fools And Horses! Possibly. Also Romeo is to release a solo single called “Where For Art Thou Romeo?”, which has Romeo’s rapping b[…]

Peggy Lee, RIP – new on FT, by Elisha Sessions, forgot to link to this last night.[…]

YOU KNOW, FOR KIDS
It’s very difficult to remember the music you heard when you were a kid. I’m not talking about the music that was playing. I’m talking about the music you heard. Twenty years on I know that I was allowed a record […]

The Gossip live – and also Peaches live – in this weeks thrilling themed FT update. (No, that’s right, it’s not the Strokes special. Patience, O Readers).[…]

When Is A Pub Not A Pub? When it’s a bar. And vice versa. Blurring the lines betwixt the two is a dangerous game and generally ends in tears. All Bar One for instance tries very hard to be a bar and hence ends up a shit pub. Most ghastly East L[…]

Speaking of patriotism…: “several other rappers have found themselves in the unusual position of supporting their government. New York collective the Wu-Tang Clan inserted a topical verse into their latest album, Iron Flag, that included […]

Everlasting Pop and Dexys Midnight Runners
There is pop, and there is popular, and then there’s popular. And there’s also “timeless”. Sometimes when people say that a record is “timeless” – let’s pick o[…]