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[…]

Where Have All the Black Pop Acts Gone?: interesting article about whether the current wave of boy band pop has pushed black pop acts like Boys II Men out of the marketplace, and why this is. But especially interesting because throughout the entire p[…]

Am I Cool Or Not is ending early this week ’cause of the site reorganisation. So get your opinions in quick, if you have any![…]

Two things I heard last night:
i) Axl Rose has found God,
ii) Snakebite is actually illegal because you can’t guarantee the ABV. Pete, is this true?
I also got to put the ‘on own in pubs’ theory to the test. What I did:
a) mooched a[…]

(Continuing the review re-runs, while I do other stuff…)
BUCKCHERRY – “Lit Up”
Don’t don’t do it: my hunch is that more great music has been made on cocaine than on any other pop star drug. Certainly the 90s had a […]

Pitchfork review the Clientele – don’t like it much. Memo: more exotic instrumentation and high-concept song-suites next time, Alasdair![…]

“The Seventies Were The Coolest Decade Ever….Because Of All My Mates!” – it’s Victor Bockris talking about the 1970s as the nexus of all good things in post-war American culture, actually quite interestingly. Possibly he[…]