And the second must-click link this evening is this review of Almost Famous by Richard Meltzer. Meltzer uses it as an opportunity for a massive personal onslaught on Danny sugerman and another forgotten 70s teenaged rock writer: it’s bitter and[…]

Must we fling this filth at our pop kids?: where’s Bill Grundy when you need him?[…]

Of course if you do want to see what my favourite rockmags are you could always look here.[…]

So when does Everett True think was the golden age of Melody Maker? Surely not when he was writing a load of grunge-rock pieces for the paper? Still, the more dewy-eyed reminiscences about “the Maker” the better – it gets it out of […]

“We all know pop music sucks in the year 2000”, or according to this site we do. So why am I pointing to this primitive rubbish? Well, jack up your speakers and you too will understand. What in Kurt’s name were they thinking?[…]

The first must-visit link of the evening is the welcome return of the legendary Radio On. Radio On as a fanzine and as a hushed whisper on the rockcrit grapevine (cause obviously it wasn’t a fanzine anyone in Britain knew about) was the direct […]

Heaven Help Us!: how I would love to see the local press coverage of this one.[…]

Twenty Underappreciated Bands Of The Nineties: Disco Inferno! Yeah! Loads of indie pony! Um….(thanks to Vaughan for the link).[…]

Jiffysquid and Simulare are new – well, new to me – music blogs turned up by Kathleen a little while back. Styles: Jiffysquid is pleasingly big-print and is also pro-indie rock, though not as single-minded on that front as some. It’[…]

Simon Reynolds picks his dance albums of the year: a tempting list, I have to say. What I find interesting are the hybrids he’s identifying between IDM and gabba, and IDM and booty bass – I’m personally having plenty of fun explorin[…]