The dog ate it: I had a whole list of links to give you and forgot to e-mail it from work. The one that won’t wait is this defence of Eminem, which gets it exactly right as far as I’m concerned (though is a bit mean on poor old Britney). […]

A couple of music-related postings from Maura’s site: this is a piece about Mary Lou Lord, among other things. I’ve not heard any of the woman’s music, but I can ‘relate’. And this, from this week, takes a curiously puri[…]

The Idler tackles Albion: it’s that old chestnut ‘English music’ again, though the Idler’s take on it seems a bit stuck in the past. “But in the Eighties, there didn’t seem to be much to connect music to the countr[…]

Am I Cool Or Not? is back, recovered after its New Year hangover. A new victim and a new judgement for your delight – and thankyou everyone who writes in, too![…]

Why I Am Doing Thousand: (I think an explanation is needed because it means basically none of my reviews here for a few weeks).
I’m doing Thousand (1,000 songs on my hard drive listened to in quasi-alphabetical order) as an experiment. A formal[…]

A Thousand Songs: it’s an experiment of sorts.[…]

Today I think we will link to In Review – we will do this because it is a sorely underrated music weblog and we will specifically do this because of Jimmy Mod’s sarkily entertaining track-by-tracker on a Kill Rock Stars comp.[…]

(I’m not entirely happy with this Le Tigre reviewlet but pending articulation of whatever else is kicking around my head re. the band I’ll put it up anyway….)
LE TIGRE – “Deceptacon”
Do you want new wave or do you […]

More FT news: there’s a selection from our bulging mailbag here; there’s an article on Foreigner and the eighties’ legacy here which looking at it may be the best thing I’ve written in a while; and if you’ve not been rea[…]

Playlouder’s Top 50 Singles Of The Year: a good job thoroughly done, and little enough to quibble with. If the NME could still be arsed to cover singles properly, it could run this and keep the target market and the old bores alike fairly happy[…]