Some records join every dot. Last year, for instance, the Kelis album and the Jay-Z album and the Romeo Must Die soundtrack turned hip-hop around for me. They made sense of a lot of things – my latent love of the genre, my excitement over R&amp[…]

Most of the people replying to this dance thread listened to music during the time house and techno music appeared and club culture exploded in popularity, in Europe at least. I’m really interested in some younger people’s perspectives on[…]

Somebody’sbeen watching too much late-70s Dr.Who: mind you, it’s nice of the Grammys to put something in for the dads. Oh no, hold on, that would be Steely Dan.[…]

Pop Eye: Pete at the controls, a new picture, two new polls, and Atomic Kitten still at No.1….[…]

Icestock: Wired reports on Antarctica’s burgeoning music scene.[…]

WE ARE POP: An evening out in a well-known London hostelry with some of the Tangents crew, the ice being broken when the Freaky Trigger boys (me, Pete and Al) demonstrated their total pop supremacy by getting the £10 jackpot on the Top Of The P[…]

Rap Snacks: it’s hip-hop crisps! But of course it is. (via The Null Device, whose tagline I am so jealous of.)[…]

Interview With Gail O’Hara, who does legendary ‘zine Chickfactor. Oh, the toils and trials of the fanzine writer’s life! Nuff respect but her distinction between ‘zines (fab groovy gear etc.) and her vision of the Internet, wh[…]

“Where Is Thousand?”, you might well be asking. I’ll be kicking off again tonight, but meanwhile Robin Carmody has missed it so badly he’s decided to do his own version.[…]

Revolution In The Head: Simon Reynolds’ long piece on Kid A from last Autumn. Well worth reading whether you like that record or not (I’m very interested in his semi-confession on his own site that he’s not listened to it much since[…]