Pop Eye – spinning off from NYLPM onto its own page, our weekly look at the charts. Now with a poll! Looks a bit rough round the edges but when we get the proper artwork up it’ll be splendid.[…]

A batch of new stuff up at Tangents – for my money the best is Mark Morris’ intelligent essay on – among others – Basquiat. There should I think be more classy British music zines – does anyone know of any others?[…]

iJamming!: you can’t keep a good magazine down. Jamming! despite the noxious title was a class ‘zine from the late 70s and early 80s, now almost forgotten, but its ex-editor Tony Fletcher maintains a website with some old excerpts and new[…]

Gravy Train Derailed: Napster, inevitably, plans to start charging a membership fee.[…]

Am I Cool Or Not?: a record-breaking 21 entries this week, but what is the verdict? And a new victim – get those guesses in![…]

(Reorganising the website and having a social life and keeping up with work committments has meant the full refit has been postponed yet again, though items should start trickling out this coming week. Anyway, re-run time again: with the new Manic St[…]

Interesting comment from Prolific – do rock lyricists tend towards simplicity as they hit their thirties, following Dylan’s trail from imagist tumble to hard-won weighted wisdom? (My personal favourite Dylan, lyrically, is the Blood On Th[…]

Tim asks the million $Australian question: why do some repetition-based tracks sound good and others not? My first thought is something Bill Drummond said in The Manual. He basically theorises a time when records which will come out which are identic[…]

The Creation Records Story is, as tweenet put it, “what every thirtysomething indie kid in London is reading this Winter”. I’m not thirtysomething but I’m still finding it a fascinating book, partly in its subtle reminder of w[…]

Drinks mean links here at Freaky Trigger, and in commemoration of a fine and surprise-filled* evening out at a (dare I say it?) indie disco I bring you king of all the hipsters?. (The ? is like the ? on Therapy?).
*no surprises in the music, of cours[…]