“Shove a trout down her throat!”: it’s Duel! Jimi vs Janis results and a new match-up.[…]

The Worst of The Worst! (Very Bad Music): I have not dared listen to any of the music but the site is well worth a visit for the selection of hate mail. God bless the Internet![…]

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So, ask somebody about the Pixies and you might hear that they were the best band of their time. Or that they invented indie rock. Or that Doolittle is the greatest record ever. Or that Nirvana ripped them off. You might hear non[…]

If you must listen to indie rock you might as well be a nice bloke, too: Jack Saturn’s site redesigns and relaunches, to support his offline zine work. It looks good.[…]

From Mr. Matos’ page comes this demolition by the mighty Douglas Wolk of a new book, The Ambient Century. All that is lacking is a big notice at the end saying “GO AND BUY OCEAN OF SOUND BY DAVID TOOP INSTEAD”, since that book does […]

Michaelangelo Matos: 2001 is truly the year of the new music weblog. This is a smart one, in that lovely chunky Pitas style and written by Michaelangelo Matos, whose name I recognise from rockcritics.com.[…]

Compendium of Corporate Cringe: Rebranding? Check. Mission Statement? Check. Pricey new logo? Check. Twice. So what else do we need? How about a company song??[…]

My celeb-in-pub sighting, documented on the Pumpkin Pubs site you will find linked on the left, is of course my double-barrelled Chris Evans encounter. To briefly summarise: i) encountered in The Crown in Soho, offered seat next to him to Fran, who w[…]

Ask Dr Pop: Dr.Pop this week tackles two problems of concern to us all – to wit, the Middle East situation, and Toploader.[…]

Artists Don’t Like Critics, what a surprise. M.Doughty of Soul Coughing goes off on one about the Pazz And Jopp poll, in an entertaining but ultimately silly rant. His comments aren’t quite on the David Eggers rabid anti-criticism tip (Cr[…]