Who would have thought that my temporary move to Surrey would result in rich local music news links? From sleepy (and horrible) Redhill comes the world’s fattest boy band. Ho ho ho.[…]

Gareth L. leaps to the defence of Adorable. Provoked, apparently, by me, so I should say that all I remember about them was that bloke in his white suit, and “Sunshine Smile”, which Gareth rightly calls ‘insipid’. I don’[…]

Pitchfork reviews Loren Mazzacane-Connors: I only have one solo Connors album (9th Avenue), and one of his fine collaborations with Keiji Haino, but both discs get a fair bit of play from me still. Al Shipley writes an interesting review, though as w[…]

The Heavenly Jukebox: via everyone (well, Mike initially). Pretty much the ultimate Napster/copyright.MP3s article. Fine stuff.[…]

New stuff on Surface Vs Depth: Some reviews wherein Gareth preaches the truth: “Continuing to prove that, for now at least, the ‘mainstream’ is way ahead of the ‘underground’ in terms of innovation and experimentation as[…]

We used to have a poster of Billie on our wall at work in which she would explain, using crudely blue-tacked speech bubbles, the intricacies of weighting, sampling and pricing to curious market research executives. This kind of thing appears to be a […]

OUTKAST – “Bombs Over Baghdad”
You get, what, half a second to take cover – a drawled “Yaay-uh” – and then Outkast hit you with the whitest-knuckle hip-hop you’ve heard since “Welcome To The Terro[…]

So yesterday I went shopping. I bought Belle And Sebastian’s “This Is Just A Modern Rock Song”, which isn’t modern, doesn’t rock, and is a wanksome seven-minute dirge that barely qualifies as a song. Thumbs down. I also […]

“Tom, I want fifty-plus versions of Hot Butter’s synth-pioneer tune ‘Popcorn’ and I want them NOW!” OK, loyal reader, here you are.[…]

And speaking of nutcases…. “The British Dialogues” is a (very partial) record of the newsgroup war that erupted earlier this year when self-proclaimed musical revolutionary ‘Art S. Revolutionary’ invaded uk.music.alterna[…]