The Freaky Trigger Readership Survey: it shouldn’t take more than five minutes and it’ll be really useful to me! Thanks.[…]

HARDchord.com – Top 40 Like a Bullet to the Head: is a new music site, which claims a “major aversion to radio-friendly music” but the best column in its first issue is about N’Sync, and the second-best mentions the Spice Girl[…]

Also in Mojo we learn that Frank Black has a new album, Dog in the Sand, on the way. So what? you may ask – but on this album Mr. Black has upped the production after years thrashing about in his faux-garage, and he’s also recruited one J[…]

Love’s anatomy: stop sniggering at the back, boy, it’s an interview with Stephin Merritt. Heard most of it before, but I gleaned a few more details about his musical: “It’s a successful invasion from Venus in the form of a pre[…]

Golden Oldies is a top article about rock critics which asks the forbidden question: are they too old to write about the music? Poking this particular stone makes all the lice curl up in a frenzy of defensiveness.
My point of view – I have no t[…]

If you’re thinking of helping top bloggers come up with amusing gangsta rap parodies of popular marketing slogans, maybe Enculturation can help you understand the medium. It gives me immense pleasure to dismiss this lengthy, footnoteful, carefu[…]

VH1 : 100 Greatest Songs of Rock n’ Roll: constantly updating their hit parade of their ten biggest wanks, link courtesy of SwallowingTacks, who contrasts it to the Mojo list. And people wonder why Tanya thinks like she does….[…]

Real player: here’s an interesting little interview with an A & R man at BMG, focussing on his views of MP3 and online music. Can you spot the contradiction here:
“How has the internet changed the music industry? What it is going to […]

Beatles head list of greatest songs: surprise surprise. This is the list that Fred linked to yesterday, but the Guardian helpfully provides the full 100. “In My Life” isn’t the worst song in the world but it’s still pretty clo[…]

Kathleen wants songs about people called Kathleen. Surely the Tindersticks did one, on some limited edition single. And equally surely it was a cover of something…..the name Townes Van Zandt crawls into my mind. Only one way to check: yes. I&#8[…]