Pitchfork review the new Tricky EP. Key sentence which makes me distrust this piece (talking about Juxtapose): “While probably worthwhile record for those that prefer Tricky’s hip-hop material, it seemed largely inessential for a fan of h[…]

It’s back-slappin’ time!: Alistair Fitchett chucks some complements my way and makes me blush, though as he guesses my pop culture knowledge is sometimes at the expense of other parts of my cultural life: I sure as hell wish I read as man[…]

The hottest music writing in the world right now is not on the web, it’s in the music section of the Village Voice, which under (I believe) the editorship of Chuck Eddy has become the place where the wittiest, cleverest and most-up-to-date rock[…]

Bowery Electric’s “Freedom Fighter” is bewitching and worrying, and not just because it was made by a band I’d put down as America’s most useless. In fact the beat Bowery Electric use on “Freedom Fighter” sou[…]

DUEL II! – Duel Of The Dead: it’s back. This week, Morrison v Lynott.[…]

Look Dad No Updates!: because I have been working hard, and creating a new secret thing, and trying to work out on IM how to save the Internet, and writing reviews for a lefty magazine, and generally doing other things, among which is reaching the ha[…]

TALKING HEADS – Fear Of Music
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Ben Okri’s The Famished Road was one of the nineties’ big publishing successes, a novel told through the[…]

And speaking of bad reviews….Alan McGee has a go at David Cavanagh’s book before launching into a bizarre attack on Martin Carr of the Boo Radleys. McGee on this barely coherent showing is unlikely to pose much of a threat to Greil Marcus[…]

The Worst Reviews of 2000: we wuz robbed! Surely somewhere on Freaky Trigger there’s a review as bad as Brent D’s Sigur Ros one! Oh well. Hugely entertaining and bitchy in-joke poke at some bad reviews, though personally I’m glad Br[…]

Ask Dr Pop: NEW FEATURE! A fortnightly column wherein the mysterious Dr Pop answers your pop questions.[…]