So Many Channels, So Few Alternatives: article on the decline of alternative radio (in Cleveland at least). One commentator nails the obvious cause – when alternative music got onto radio in the first place it locked itself into the fashion-cyc[…]

BIRTH – Found A Way Out
In MacDonald’s, Robbie Williams’ “Angels” is playing. And a lively young mum is talking to her child, who looks about four or five: she starts singing along to Robbie. “This is such a cracki[…]

Selling Millions On A Sour Note: pre-Grammy’s article (a bit late, sorry) on the pop industry’s dislike and distrust of the music it’s currently pushing. I disagree with virtually every opinion expressed, especially Carlos Santana&#[…]

You want over-intellectualisation? I’ll give you over-intellectualisation: “Top of the Pops made radical, filled with fury against exploitation and injustice would not transform Britain but a Top of the Pops filled with disco, the empty h[…]

Mental! Mental! Mental: It’s the Crawley Love Parade, brought to you by Popjustice!.[…]

Skip this entry if you don’t want to read editorial metastuff: music content minimal.. Tim has some very interesting things to say about the the quality of pop 2000, and one absurd but flattering thing to say about NYLPM (I can’t even def[…]

summersalts is an online music zine produced by one person who sits and reviews records and writes about music and harasses idiots in AOL chats and generally does all your standard indie-rock things. I liked the front page and the articles, I liked t[…]

A couple of corrections:
i. Yeah, Ned, it was “In Bloom”.
ii. The link to the NY Times story was from the untilthebreakofdawn blog, which is juicy and good and obviously has a cool name too.[…]

Phallic cymbals: “David Lee Roth, ex-frontman with Van Halen, is excoriated for consorting voraciously with female groupies, yet Jimi Hendrix, just as sexually insatiable, was merely displaying “an innocently baroque gusto”. Innocen[…]

ATN Is Dead, Long Live ATN: as Kathleen says, did anyone read ATN much? Still, it blazed some kind of trail and maybe us amateur hacks owe it something for that. I’m more interested in the news that it’s hiring Simon Reynolds to do a hope[…]