You might like to know that the fourth CLUB SUSSED is taking place this Thursday night in its usual venue: Club Latino, The Plain, Oxford, £3 to get in, 10pm-2am, pop music and beer. A Day Of Decadence is also planned for the Friday. Regular DJ[…]

Punk: How was it for you?: punk is twenty-five years old, that’s nice. The more interesting question – how is it for you? – goes unasked.[…]

MERCURY REV – “The Dark Is Rising”
1998 seems terribly far away, though. I would not have guessed that the shiver of life between 25, when I heard Deserter’s Songs and wanted to cry, and 28, when I heard this and wanted to wri[…]

The Power Trio: The “metal triumvirate” of Chuck Eddy, Martin Popoff, and Deena Wozniak chat about Ozzfest. Most interesting comment – Wozniak’s suggestion that the visual barrage and musical high-speed change-heavy jerkiness […]

New Article – Fred Solinger talking about the Beta Band’s Hot Shots II.
This is also a good opportunity for me to apologise to you all for the lack of updates and upkeep on the site. A crisis of faith in pop writing and a number of deligh[…]

0: I Will Regret This
I discovered today I have a thousand songs on my hard drive. They last sixty-six hours, thirty minutes, and thirty seven seconds, and take up a bit over three gig.
This page is a documentary of my listening to them, no repeats, […]

A Quick Mention of Club Sussed III at which I’ll be DJing TONIGHT (Thursday) under my ninja guise DJ Cockfarmer. I will be for the first time playing the CLIMACTIC SET of the night so do not miss it (Club Latino, The Plain, St Clements, Oxford,[…]

Dancing About Architecture goes eighties with an album-a-year trawl through what (sez they) made the Eighties less “synthy, spiky and safe”. In other words, ten albums which try to wrench back the 80s from their rightful nostalgiapop weir[…]

I Hear the Call: ace piece on the Backstreets’ “The Call” which manages to make the song (not one of my favourites) sound fascinating and underestimate it both at once. Darnelle’s point – that the delusional narrator of […]

Ordinarily I would post the Club Sussed playlist…but I was having too much fun to remember what I spun. Big shout outs to DJs Carsmile, Crow Atak and Constant Spray, see you on the 19th.
I am going on holiday, meanwhile – sorry about the […]