DUEL!: An epic battle between Radiohead and the Manics today (up late due to me being ill last night).[…]

Salon reviews the new XTC album: my big question is, how come Salon’s music features are among the most interesting and thought-provoking on the net, and yet its reviews are usually so flat? Spending half of every piece giving boring background[…]

The death of music retail as we know it?: the most interesting things in this article are the things only barely touched on – the apparently common, even fashionable attitude that music should be free. Something about that worries me – no[…]

DUEL!: Skunk Anansie vs Primal Scream.
A slight lack of updates yesterday as we all got down to the Pop Music Focus Group. Ballots were sent out Sunday, votes in by next Saturday, but more importantly a good time was had by all (oh, my aching head). […]

Fleischer on Madonna’s Pie: ho ho ho ho, Madonna’s Pie, geddit? “In Madonna’s hands, the song ceases to pertain to its subject matter.” – yes, and that’s a good thing, since the ‘subject matter’ i[…]

popjustice.com: in a chickenshit world, finally a site that matters.[…]

DUEL!: I know it’s a holiday here and in America, but anyway here’s today’s Duel, James vs Muse.[…]

The Oysterhead Enigma: so let’s get this straight. A band featuring members of Phish, Primus, and the Police get together for a one-off ‘jam’, and the mainstream press doesn’t cover it, and we’re supposed to believe that[…]

Screen Ravers: Simon Reynolds on rave movies – perceptive comments on Human Traffic and the upcoming Groove with little of the disillusionment that’s characterised his recent writings. Nice. (This link grabbed from a symmetric plastic nar[…]

They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them): live review of an extraordinary new band, fresh up on FT.[…]