In case you’re interested…the LondonIndieUSA event raised – when corporate donations were included – around £1800 for the International Red Cross. Thanks very much to any readers who came along![…]

THE STREETS – “Has It Come To This?”
“You’re listening to The Streets”
Are we? The Streets is a novelty record which has the feel of an underground record, or – maybe even better – it’s an undergr[…]

Four Months Later…: A Thousand Songs is back.[…]

Pleasantly straightforward review of the recent Acid Mothers Temple album, blogged because it is what I have been melting my head with all day.[…]

radio free narnia is a weblog by Mark Sinker. It’s not all about music but announcing it here should win it more hits than announcing it on Groke.[…]

Heroes Or Zeroes: note quote from “Internet music journalist Tom Ewing” at the bottom. Look Ma, I’m famous![…]

Last Plane to Jakarta is today and by some distance the best music zine on the ‘net and I’m ashamed for not having linked to it before. Truth to tell I didn’t look at it before because I knew it would be better than what I’m d[…]

What is “Panic” about? Dismissed and attacked since its release as small-minded, or snobbish, or even borderline racist, The Smiths’ anti-disco broadside continues to intrigue. On this thread, The Pinefox calls it a “yoking of[…]

LOVE HANGOVERS
Neither version of “Love Hangover” has anything very much to do with a hangover. The song, written for Diana Ross and then covered by The Associates, is in that cynical, wonderful tradition of soul songwriting where every m[…]

A Loafer’s Discourse: why I’ve not been writing much, why that has to change. Tangentially related to music.[…]