PETE BARAN AND SARAH CLARKE – “Paranoid Android”
Live performance, the King Of Corsica pub, 4th May 2001.
Karaoke is the final destination of pop, the point where the gap between song and listener rubs thinnest. In the space karaoke[…]

Pitchfork Reviews Kirsty MacColl: 7.0 is about right – the self-congratulatory tone Richard M Juzwiak takes over his faint praise is all wrong. We know you don’t like melodrama, Richard, we could have guessed that from your dismissal of &[…]

Radio Plus gives you Emm! Pee! Threes! of stuff that John Peel is playing. All the usual suspects including Most Annoying Song Ever “I Have The Password To Your Shell Account” by Barcelona, the band who make Baxendale look like Kraftwerk.[…]

Yaara.com: “should really be linked by NYLPM” says Sterling on the forum, and who can disagree? Indian pop online – Bollywood, bhangra, pop, ‘Asian underground’. Neat.[…]

THE PUB SEVEN DEADLY SINS: 4: No Smoking Areas REACTION NUMBER TWO
The major problem with Pub No-Smoking Areas is that the only way to guarantee their being smoke-free is to open all the doors and windows nearby so the No-Smoking Area is also the Dra[…]

The Year of the Rock – Rock ‘n’ roll’s 12-year itch.: it’s idiocy time! I first heard about the cyclical theory of rock back in, what, 1997 or 1998. It gets quoted by critics who want a big ‘revolutionary’ sc[…]

Beyoncé Good and Evil: Jessica Winter reviews the new Destiny’s Child album. Back-and-forthing on the forum casts this piece as a demolition, whether justified or not, but reading it, it just seems like sharp, smart criticism. Not all positive[…]

Blimey its a new episode of Thousand (with a special guest star!)[…]

BROADCAST – “Come On Let’s Go” / “Dead The Long Year”
Not a review so much as a suggestion and a glimpse. A suggestion that people think of Broadcast too much as sound curators and mood builders, casting old Radiop[…]

A Loafer’s Discourse – my final (hopefully) word on the freakytrigger.com thing.[…]