I want Nick Mirov’s job: the most entertaining part of Pitchfork lately has been the reader mail, since the site has obviously hit that critical mass of readership where it gets flowery and indignant letters from people who secretly wish they w[…]

WHEATUS – Teenage Dirtbag
What if LFO had written “Creep”?[…]

There was something about Mary: also from the Guardian, this extract from Al Green’s upcoming autobiography, dealing with the ex-lover/hot grits/hurling/resultant suicide incident. A dramatic enough story without the slight over-writing that se[…]

Much amusement to be had from the unintentionally funny interview with Alan McGee, which finds him wildly enthusing about a lot of knackered old music. “Genius!” he says, of everyone, before rambling offensively about how Ian Curtis was &[…]

GRACE JONES – “Slave To The Rhythm” (12″)
“Ladies and Gentlemen….” What Eighties pop had more than anything before or since is a sense of scale. Long tracks previously tended to be messy jams, or primitivist […]

SLIMM CUTTA CALHOUN – “It’s OK”
Another day, another magnificent hip-hop single. It’s almost easy to take this year’s embarrassment of riches for granted: things are so good right now that you can almost lie back a[…]

Ally reviews a new Sarah Cracknell EP, so I thought I’d point out that Cracknell’s Saint Etienne bandmates have co-written most of the songs on the new Shampoo CD. Now, I’m not going to buy it any more than you are, but there is a c[…]

It’s that time of year again: Son Of The Son Of The Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group is almost upon us (well, about a month away) and this time so as to avoid missing out any really really obvious records I’m asking for nominations in[…]

Arts: Tim Cumming on Miles Davis: NYLPM’s descent into the gutter continues. No, no, it doesn’t: this is an overview of Davis’ electric period – nothing new precisely but it’s well done. If you own the records this&#8217[…]

What better way to celebrate the end of my alphabetical toils than with a good bit of PORN. (Josh, you wanted filthy links on NYLPM: here they are.)
OK, this is really the new Add N To X video, “Plug Me In”, for which the analogue Camden […]