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.[…]

Simon Reynolds’ Unfaves of 2000 – the link on his page doesn’t work, but this one does. TREMBLE! as Aaliyah gets a dissing. QUAKE! as progressive trance comes under the hammer. NOD! as Reynolds says some very sensible things about N[…]

FT vs the Cockfarmers: Update: The cockfarmers have won. Ha! OK, no, the situation re. the domain name is that we’ve not got it and that you should under no circumstances go to freakytrigger.com and give the people who do any money. As least if[…]

“The problem is,” my friend is saying, “That people see relationships as a zero-sum game.” And while I’m talking to her Aaliyah is saying “Who should be hurt? Who should be blamed?”, ’cause someone has […]