I’m moving this week, initially to my parents’ and then to who knows where (job-related uncertainty). Will I do a Westernhomes and vanish completely? Hardly. But there might be some fall-off in posting between now and Thursday. If Fred, G[…]

Here’s a metaphysical puzzler for you: at what point will the number of album reviews in the world exceed the number of albums released? Some albums, of course, never get reviewed. Others are reviewed a billion billion times, or so it would see[…]

menotyou is a new music/films/popculture site which promises an irreverent, well-written daily look at, well, much the same stuff the rest of us are looking at. Still, it looks very crisp, and reads that way too. It so far seems a lot clearer about w[…]

Robin weighs in with his view of 69 Love Songs. I think he’s a bit off in his summation of “Busby Berkeley Dreams” (whose protagonist is basically quite a frightening fellow, albeit a sympathetic one), and I don’t think Momus […]

MacArthur Park: What’s It All About, Jimmy – page full of clippings and links related to “MacArthur Park”, Jimmy Webb’s metaphor-heavy angst epic, which has long been a source of cheap gags re. its supposed impenetrabili[…]

RIAA vs Napster: Glenn McDonald’s ‘position paper’ on the topic. The War Against Silence, Glenn’s staggeringly long-running (and just staggeringly long, period) music review site has taken a Jeremiac turn of late, and this is […]

Bill Grundy Interview: as if you wanted it, a transcript of the ‘notorious’ Sex Pistols/Billy Grundy interview, which I visited to confirm my suspicions re. Steve Jones saying “You fucking rotter” to Grundy. Rotter?? Who the h[…]

THE CHAMELEONS – “Swamp Thing”
On paper, we should owe The Chameleons everything: every grand swoop, passioned howl and gritted-teeth gesture of modern rock might stem from these North-East die-hards. I should be cursing them now fo[…]

Freaky Trigger sexier than Pitckfork shocker. Not that we’ve got any photographic evidence to back this up (Fred’s notorious pictures aside), but hey, we had two genders at our pub meet.[…]

Diamanda Galas reviews a bunch of singles – a million times more entertaining than the notion of D.G. reviewing a bunch of singles suggests. I’d seen Galas doing the Invisible Jukebox thing in The Wire and while entertaining she was very […]