I am a bit narked with the estimable DJ Martian (archives not working so you’ll have to scroll down). First of all he hypes his end-of-year list on the forum about five lengthy times and then doesn’t get it up, but more importantly he pos[…]

When William Orbit produced Ray Of Light, everyone I knew thought it was a bit of a chore – far more embarrassing than Maddy going techno was Orbit trying to recover his electronic touch after years spent cranking out flabby ambient wishwash. S[…]

Eminem voted Christmas favourite: note misuse of word “coveted” in first sentence. Note also 2% of UK population certifiably insane for voting for Craig Phillips.[…]

Melody Maker to merge with NME – and it’s all our fault. “The magazine’s publisher IPC said increasing competition from music sites on the internet had prompted the decision” – well, OK, maybe they’re not pre[…]

Hyperdub: and now a link nicked off Simon Reynolds (see below) – Hyperdub is an extraordinary magazine marrying the futuristic musical rush of cutting-edge garage and dance music with the logokinetic buzz of writers firing on all verbal cylinde[…]

(Finally this gets finished. I would like to apologise on behalf of us all to women readers and especially to Emma and Kate. I should probably also apologise to Magnus given the perhaps undue emphasis on his drinking frailty, but tough luck.)
The Blu[…]

You’llhave seen this already, probably, Pitchfork’s Top 20 of 2000. Top 20 what? Albums, obviously. Radiohead come top – sorry to spoil the surprise and all.
Actually the ‘head album is the one on this rundown which comes clos[…]

CB Savage, courtesy of Starry, who recommended it highly in the pub and was most certainly right to. Listen and wonder.[…]

Another week, another Am I Cool Or Not? – see how wrong you all were last time! Then try your qualitative skills on this week’s guinea pig.[…]

Loads of new stuff up on Simon Reynolds’ site. And oh, check out the links page.[…]