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 […]

Finally I get round to replying to Western Homes, whose mention of us last Wednesday has sparked a monster flood of hits at precisely the point at which my social life explodes, my sleeping patterns head west and my weblogging as a result goes comple[…]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. There’s a new PopJustice up (only one joke, but a good one) and about a billion reviews of bands I know nothing about (a surefire mark of quality, go get ’em kids) at Splendid.[…]

Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP: you will roll your eyes when you read the review, and if you wish to laugh like a dog when you see the accompanying photo, I cannot stop you. Ken Tucker drops in a Genet reference to show he’s a clever guy, then[…]

Star guests on first Go-Betweens album for 12 years: (link via Fred, who’s been keeping the music blog flame alive during my relative inactivity). Well, on the one hand it’s a new Go-Betweens album. On the other hand it’s a new Go-B[…]

For a Rock Aesthetic “It is quite pathetic to read essay by Wilfred Mellers, Ned Rorem or Tony Palmer concerned with comparing the Lennon-McCartney songbook to Schubert or Poulenc, as if work in the genre of ‘song’ could have any ae[…]

CV of CV: dry but informative Caetano Veloso biography, from the altogether more colourful Caravan Music, a one-stop shop for Brazilian music.[…]