SEXUS – “How Do You Kiss?”
THE TEMPTATIONS – “Get Ready”
The Temptations ambush me twice today, once in plain sight on a Smokey Robinson: Songwriter comp tape, and I think, “this is a great song”, and t[…]

A warm NYLPM welcome to David Raposa of Popshots, whose maiden review (pun extended) you’ll see below. Cheers![…]

The government are strippers: OK, this may well not be the most incisive or heavyweight political analysis you’ve heard in your life. But the word ‘government’ has been out-of-bounds in commercial hip-hop for so long it’s no s[…]

Dancing About Architecture are back with an elegant new design and the second half of William Ham’s Metal Machine Music essay, too.[…]

Abroad: This post runs the risk of sounding like Al Murray, the Pub Landlord. So let me say first of all that I love Europe generally – the food, the open spaces, the comfortingly hostile shop assistants, the magnificent architecture, the baffl[…]

FT Relaunch News
When? June 21 2001
What? New articles, interviews and reviews, and an (ever-growing) selection from the FT archives. Plus I Hate Music, Pop-Eye, Am I Cool Or Not? and maybe other features too.
Where? http://35.176.142.37
So what else[…]

Happy Birthday Bob: Tanya has a special tribute.[…]

WEEZER – “Hash Pipe”
You want geeky? OK then. At one point in Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s The Ballad Of Halo Jones, the protagonist is exhausted. Her life is going nowhere, she’s fighting in a space war (this being, afte[…]

You’ll be seeing this link in a few places: Pitchfork sluts for hits and gets Brent DiCrezcenzo to review Tool’s record. I’m linking to it because I think it’s funny (ha ha). My current despair at the very notion of ever writi[…]

Radiohead on for biggest chart hit: i.e. No.2, behind DJ Pied Piper whose single is called, perhaps aptly, “Do You Really Like It?” Good old BBC Online and their nose for a crucial entertainment story.[…]