Tangents covers the Ohm boxed set, from whence I’ve already heard several great sounds. If texture or history’s your thing, chances are you’ll enjoy it. And if you enjoy it, the stuff at Perfect Sound Forever will be an total treasu[…]

Tim at Skykicking (which is getting really good – told you so) links to Lo-Fi Electric Diary (he got the link via PTAHE, which looks like some mad Alice Coltrane Greek/Egyptian album title when acronymised and is also dead good) but – get[…]

I want my MP3: 73% of music and technology journalists willing to use weak puns on the word MP3, according to a new investigation. Succinct and pointed article: but still the question I’m interested in goes unanswered – what impact is all[…]

Women’s Solidarity in Hip Hop Cuture: small font, interesting-looking article. A lot of the stuff today I’m blogging as ‘reminders’ to myself as well as links for my dear readers. But you can still blame me if they’re ru[…]

BRITPOP — A Short History (in capsule form) of British Pop Music: Every couple of years I think about updating my History of UK Indie, tinkering around a bit more and expanding some sections – there needs to be lots more on Factory Record[…]

Sounds Of The Universe: following my rare venture into gigworld last Saturday (a ‘big shout out’ to Stevie, Joe and Tim, whose company I hugely enjoyed: some kind of thoughts/review of the gig forthcoming), I’m off again to see &#82[…]

Yesterdal the bulk of my time was spent writing serious stuff on Blue Lines, so today I will devote my (rare) non-work time to NYLPM. Hopefully.
Anyway, strange but true is a sad little interview detailing the decline of Steve Strange, former New Ro[…]

The Indie-Rock Boys’ Guide to Indie-Rock Girls: well, let’s put it this way, if they want a man with an Iggy Pop body, they’d best stay well away from me. On the other hand, I find hairslides intolerable. (via Pearls…)[…]

Kid Rock Starves To Death: MP3 Piracy Blamed – everyone will be linking to this one, too. And so they should.[…]

Biblical View of Music: Right. Recent discussions on e-mail have focussed on the difficulties of finding music that everybody likes. Thankfully I have been able to cut through this Gordian Knot with the help of this useful text, which outlines The Lo[…]