This is about fanzines: I think this is one of the best things Tangents ever published – a piece, back in 1996, on the fanzine explosion of the 80s and the opportunities for e-zines to similarly capture the moment. I’m blogging it because[…]

The Annual All Time Best of the Worst Country Song Titles: Ones which would also be on the Best of the Best Country Song Titles:
If The Jukebox Took Teardrops I’d Cry All Night Long
Out Of My Head And Back In My Bed
Heaven’s Just A Sin Aw[…]

‘Mom, I blew up the music industry’: interview with Shawn Fanning of Napster which unforgiveably gets how Napster works completely wrong. That said the article redeems itself somewhat by acknowledging Napster (and MP3s’) vast oncomi[…]

ORF ON FM4: “Tosender Applaus für Björk! Faule Tomaten für die All Saints!” – it’s a collaborative music weblog! It’s also in German! (link via Euroranch). On an almost totally unrelated note, FT got a link from a Fre[…]

Relics from a deadly decade “the 80s at their best amounted to a few Madonna singles and the Smiths’ solipsistic neuroses. The decade simply hasn’t weathered well”: the biggest-selling musical style internationally is club-ori[…]

From The Guardian: “She said that if the orchestra had “known more about the many movements in modern music and pop music, they certainly would not have co-operated with the Scorpions” “. Will symphony orchestras never learn?[…]

NOTE: The Fosca review below is not by me as the author-tag suggests, it’s by Jack Neale, the human dynamo who edits The Horse, to which you must now go. He writes thoughtful album reviews and high-quality film ones too, but he’s not a fu[…]

The War Against Silence 277: “Plot differences notwithstanding, this is the book that after reading Bitch, I wished Prozac Nation had been” – Glenn MacDonald reviewing Geri Halliwell’s If Only, a really excellent piece of writ[…]

And that’s your lot for the English Tape. Next up is the Bad Music issue, which I’ve gone on about plenty already (I should really shut up and get to work on marking all the stuff up). NYLPM’s contribution to this festival of badnes[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 12
SABRES OF PARADISE – “Wilmot” (12″ Single)
Sabres Of Paradise called a whole album Haunted Dancehall, but really they just meant this song, the grotesque truncation of which on that album mark[…]