Paul Morley interviews Duran Duran: oh for the paragraph tag. One of his classic pieces, nonetheless.[…]

Samantha Fox reviews The Fall: and there’s a listing of Sam’s own work here. Naughty girls, you’ll recall, need love too.[…]

MOTORHEAD FOR LIFE: I’ve not much stomach for blogging today so you get random links like this (on the official site, lovely). We expect the Dismemberment Plan to follow Motorhead’s lead shortly.[…]

BUSTA RHYMES – Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See
BUSTA RHYMES – Get Out
A sorry tale of decline. “Put Your Hands….” is absolutely typical Busta, but his formula was so winning that the best example of it becomes his[…]

Lester Bangs: “I didn’t go around shoving my prejudices down everybody’s throat. I just endured Cream every fucking day, “Spoonfull” and all the rest of that whiteheap bigdealsowhat . And you’d think it’s onl[…]

dr. fetid’s wizards of the sonic: if you’re the kind of listener who likes to hear celebrities singing terrible versions of schlocky pop standards, or who is into bizarro covers of more ‘respectable’ material by obvious lunati[…]

Jejune asks a question: “is there any song on this earth more horrible and unlistenable than Roxanne by the Police? (Assumed answer: no.)”. A quick call to Tanya’s mobile elicits the following answer:
“Roxanne” by the Po[…]

Yahoo! UK & Ireland Picks of the Week: FT doesn’t usually trigger its own trumpet samples, but on this occasion comment is perhaps called for: We Rock. Who’d have thought Yahoo! UK was so poor that a crumpled tenner would suffice?[…]

The Pokemon Phenomenon 
This piece was going to be an unabashed paean to Pokemania, explaining what a cracking game it was and how the mass tweener hysteria which greets every fresh Pokegame, cardset, pillow-case, or doily was a good thing inasm[…]

Misfit City‘s second issue has kicked off. MC have this strange way of organising their updates into issues, but I’m not complaining – expect intelligent, finely-written reviews of obscure British acts, often with a progressive or e[…]