Especially for Fred… (and other interested parties), it’s the Guardian’s amusing review of the new Madonna album.[…]

usounds is back in operation. Look, kids, MP3s![…]

Radiohead: Kid A: Pitchfork Review: You might like the album. But you won’t like this. Has Brent DiCrescenzo never heard an art-rock record before? Good to see it’s not just Freaky Trigger playing pre-release link slut, though.[…]

Spinning records: frothy Salon piece on Bush and Gore’s use of pop music in their campaigns, included mostly because it’s the first substantial music article Salon have run all week, and it’s in the Politics section! Salon’s A[…]

We know what you played this summer: assorted pop stars and other musical bods pick their favourite tunes (and choons) of the Summer. Daphne And Celeste have the best taste.[…]

Kid A: “Dear Sir, please cancel my subscription to Freaky Trigger forthwith. First you review Stephin Merritt’s new record unfavourably and now you give a lukewarm but reasonably charitable review to an album by Radiohead??? What is your […]

Radiohead – Kid A 
I’ve enjoyed Kid A most when the office is empty and it’s just me and the striplights and the screen, too late in the evening. At quiet times like those I’ve been only too happy to indulge it – in fact I’ve found i[…]

Western Homes returns (sort of).[…]

The Magnetic Fields at missprint.org: here are photos of the MF gig I went to, seeing as I dont have time for anything more discursive today, plus everything is going crazy ape outside with a fuel blockade. Anyway, this comes from Starry Vs The Baddi[…]

Go-Betweens: The Friends of Rachel Worth: Pitchfork Review: and another review, from Meg Zamula, one of Pitchfork’s unsung but consistently good new writers. She even passes the Cobain/Verlaine test.[…]