DUEL! – ROUND 2 – the final round 2 conflict, between Richard Ashcroft and the Manic Street Preachers.[…]

The Spice Girls (whose official site is frankly shoddy) have unilaterally declared the 1st July Girl Power Day. But why? I hear you ask. What momentous occasion does that day mark? Well. The 1st July marks the fourth anniversary of the release of &#8[…]

It’s a concept album about the Great War which is better than The Final Cut: you couldn’t have dreamed of such a thing but hey, Piano Magic have pulled it off with Artist’s Rifles, or so sez Tim. By an astounding synchronicity I bou[…]

An unforeseen problem with the hot new MP3 tradin’ technology is that a spelling mistake on one MP3 file can rapidly spread around the whole net. Hence the error Greg points out – my bootleg copy of “Thong Song” is proudly cre[…]

The English Motorway System: Thoughts on Luke Haines: “Haines is the sort of songwriter you need in any country” – a new piece on Robin Carmody’s Elidor site, an interesting look at Haines’ work with the Auteurs and Blac[…]

Lambchop: Nixon: Pitchfork Review “In the plainest terms possible, Nixon is a record for grandmothers and hipsters.”. Pitchfork turns its attention to Lambchop – good review, somewhat harsh. I agree that Nixon doesn’t really m[…]

OK Computer: “Indeed, this is an “R&B” that’s increasingly sci-fi in its hysterical self-loathing flight from the American earth of roadhouse, kitchen, church, juke joint, whorehouse, etc.” Well, thank goodness for […]

Still no FTP access (apologies to fans of Duel, Tanya and Mike) so you get a review instead:
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – “The Stars Of Track And Field”
THIRD EYE BLIND – “Never Let You Go”
LFO – “Summer Girls[…]

Moltar’s Page of the Beautiful Rock Hair: alt boyz like nothing more than to disrespect ‘hair metal’. While NYLPM’s kneejerk revisionism can’t go so far as to rehabilitate the noise Whitesnake actually made, it’s w[…]

What’s on your RIO?: My new MP3 player is just so lovely, even if it is objectively speaking an overpriced gew-gaw which is a hassle to update all the time. But from my single-holic point of view, it’s a treat. What have I been listening […]