MP3.com – James Lucas: here’s where you can download stuff by James Lucas, who Robin reviewed a while back. Go James Go![…]

No, Josh, no! Fred is trying his best to get you some action and you’re talking about Parmenides and Wittgenstein! Man oh man!
In-jokes aside, Josh has some typically interesting and well-thought out things to say about liking things. Read them[…]

DUEL! – ROUND 2: the first late nite Duel, pitting Travis against Macy Gray. Do your worst![…]

Vote for your favourite rock critic!: currently Albini is winning, which feels like a bit of a cheat – Albini’s producer’s diaries make for hilarious reading but in terms of actual criticism he comes across as a watered-down Carducc[…]

The Top 10 Coolest People In Rock, according to Melody Maker (lifted from the best blog in the world…ever). I want to emigrate. Or die. Here they are:
Coolest
1. Nicky Wire
2. Kelly Jones
3. Fran Healy
4. Cerys Matthews
5. Dave Grohl
6. Kurt Co[…]

Forever And For Now: aptly enough, here’s Tangents come to set matters straight. “It’s like you can acknowledge the ‘importance’ of the Beatles from a rigidly linear standpoint, but it doesn’t make their records an[…]

John Lennon: Imagine: Digitally Remastered and Remixed: Pitchfork Review: Tanya! TANYA!! Are you reading this??
Cool thing about Imagine: It has “Jealous Guy” on it.
Uncool thing about Imagine: It has “Imagine” on it.[…]

Uncertain, unfair and bloodthirsty: “Many people still think of folk as a music with a very obvious agenda, i.e., political protest, singalongs for kids, etc. But “Rock-a-Bye Baby” has always been about a baby falling out of a tree […]

Where is Duel?: Basically, doing Duel! of a morning was doing my head in. So from today I’m switching to putting it up in the evenings. The downside – or perhaps upside – of this is that I may, oh horror, occasionally be doing the p[…]

One of the wonders and terrors of Blogger is that it brings Usenet’s age-old ability to post in haste and repent at leisure to a webwide audience. Signal Drench Music Magazine is annoyed, and rightly, at the comment I made that the Top 100 list[…]