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[…]

Unpop is a newish indie-rock zine. There’s no mission statement or manifesto in sight, of course, since like most indie-rock zines the critical primacy of the music is taken for granted. But there are reviews and a few features: if you like thi[…]

Thousand is still going, it may astonish readers to know.[…]

Fred insisted I link to this, his essay on his list of favourite ever songs. But put that out of your mind and read on as it’s got some nice thoughts on radio and self-conscious listmaking. Not thoughts I much agree with but then I’m not […]