Ridiculously OTT review of “Stan” from the NME. But It’s odd, actually, because we were down the pub last night talking about Bill Hicks and we all agreed that he was quite good but a bit of a sacred cow. That said he’s clearl[…]

TRACKS OF THE YEAR: 2000
Starting today: thirty tracks, best of the year, counted down in order. I’m going to get Blogvoices put on so people can discuss the choices, I think. Other contributors – feel free to intersperse with additions a[…]

Response to Am I Cool Or Not? has been very poor this week. Do the readers of FT know nothing about women’s music tastes? I may have to start offering prizes.[…]

Chris Cunningham, Aphex video guy, interviewed and his work profiled. Nice. (via The Morning News)[…]

“Blogger ate my post” may be a “dog ate my homework” for the 21st century, but you know, sometimes the dog did actually eat the homework (um…). Anyway, I was going to link to DAA‘s piece on Rolling Stone‘s po[…]

THE PUB OF MUSIC
(The Blue Posts, Kingly Street, Soho. One Round)
Kingly Street is busy – gradually Saturday afternoon has turned into Saturday evening and we are now hurtling headlong towards Saturday night, and we don’t even have a spec[…]

POP-EYE 3/12/00
Well, it appears we have an honest-to-god chart battle on our hands. It may have taken until December, and we may have had to endure tiresome run-offs involving bloody Spiller (or, worse, the Spice Girls/Westlife battle, which was in […]

Top Five Pieces You Yourself Wrote – from Rockcritics, a fantastic idea for a list, if it elicits confessions like this, from Mark Sinker (an excellent writer). “Written to convince myself of the uselessness of being in love with [xXx], a[…]

GUNS N ROSES – “My Michelle”
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – “Expectations”
Axl’s belle’s some junkie latchkey kid he’s looking at (and yearning for, even if the lyrics don’t go that explicit), and Be[…]

Lennon tributes from a variety of mostly self-serving Celebs (Sheryl Crow has clearly been faxing the same winsome copy round all the broadsheets, f’r example). Do you want mine? It’s here (today only, then it’s in the archive, ha!)[…]