Orange Juice, DJ Marlboro and the question of limits 
A lot of the best dance music is made by people who’ve got no idea and less care about how to do things properly. Think Outkast’s hyperspeed snare rushes on “B.O.B.” and t[…]

Pop-Eye: No comments facility this week, so instead you get a special bonus poll. It’s also NYLPM graduate Greg Scarth’s first week on the Pop-Eye beat. And when you’ve read it, get over to the forum for the usual chat.[…]

OK you lot listen up. Some people were apparently mighty offended by the indie kids article and now no indie kid will talk to me. Which is a tragedy because, you see, deep down…
I LOVE INDIE KIDS
And here’s why.
1) Their drug of choice. T[…]

Am I Cool Or Not?: a record-breaking mailbag, and a fresh victim.[…]

Credit Those Links: that weblog I linked to a couple of days back came from The Null Device, which is also a good (non-music) weblog.[…]

“an ordinary face but impressive decolletage”!!! – we’ll get Josh listening to DJ Assault yet, eh readers?
(Readers, my apologies for link-lack and general lassitude of ‘the Trigger’: I have spent all weekend eithe[…]

The Village Voice…or Pitchfork?: barely a week after I start raving about their music section the VV goes all indie rock on me with a big double review of crypto-pop sensations Clinic and Icelandic hippies Sigur Ros, both of them bands which th[…]

Allsound.org – Beautiful Sounds and Difficult Music: this is an excellent idea, a Slashdot-style collaborative music weblog. It focusses on “difficult music”, never a term I’m happy with, but it looks interesting and deserves […]

Long and fascinating interview with Keiji Haino. Worrying Jim Morrison worship leads to self-doubting questions re. Haino fandom.[…]

All the kids love Charlemagne P, so here’s a review from Ed Pinsent’s beautifully designed printzine Sound Projector, which covers all the avant-garde stuff you need to know about – krautrock, minimalism, japanoise, underground post[…]