Does the world need a Mark E Smith font? Apparently so, though judging from the Fall’s sleeves etc. it looks not very much like his depraved scrawl. Almost certainly of more lasting use is the excellent page of Fall News the same site maintains[…]

Tonight’s the night when They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them) party on at the Octocapsule in Stoke Newington. A long performance of their epical masterpiece “Blok Rock” is promised, plus DJing, belly dancers, and dodgy punch. No de[…]

Planet Revolution: Revolution is the “music magazine for the digital age”, and its site is a joke: not a good start. It’s not a joke because of poor design or navigability, certainly not – even on my pretty slow home machine i[…]

Can we forgive Wagner? “It would be naive to feel that we must whitewash Wagner’s works in order to be able to enjoy them, for such an argument suggests that there is such a thing as an ideologically unproblematic work of art. On the othe[…]

The FTP is once again down, so currently I Hate Music and CAOTM can’t be updated. Apologies to Mike, Tanya and their readers. This also means that we can’t launch the Films Issue as planned: I’m in contact with the people who host f[…]

PCC’s Pre-Mixed Tapes – better than most mixtape articles, not as good as the huge ever-growing article that rules from the centre of kempa.com. The Stalker one Kathleen likes is in fact rubbish, as it leaves off such notable stalky class[…]

Sing Along With Stephin: been after this one for a while – Stephin Merritt selects one ‘best’ recording from every year, 1900-1999. And no, he’s not arrogant enough to choose any of his own. Anyone who picks Julie London as th[…]

Reviews ‘n’ Rants from Uncle Fester. Uncle Fester’s been around on the internet reviewing music for ages, and he doesn’t get enough respect from us young bucks (hollow laugh). Here are his thoughtful, straightforward reviews o[…]

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Belle And Sebastian are great: Belle And Sebastian are dreadful. After a couple of months spent waking up to the first, it’s dispiriting to be reminded that the second still holds. I spent three years disliking Belle And Sebastian after hear[…]

Are You A Rock Chick?: why yes, I am a bit short of inspirational links today. Barely amusing quiz, via Kitschbitch. It’ll be name generators next.[…]