Geri lands film role, playing a girl perpetually in therapy. How curiously appropriate.[…]

Drug Thesis: using music as an investment guide for the culturally-aware dealer. Written in 1997, concludes by telling you to buy lots of acid. It’s three years later and from my limited knowledge of the chemical ‘scene’ acid is as […]

Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music: More Than This: The Best of…: Pitchfork Review “While ignorant rich people do enjoy music to a limited extent, the infinite pleasures of Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits or Wings’ Greatest could never comp[…]

Sonic Youth: NYC Ghosts & Flowers: Pitchfork Review – of course everyone’s going to be linking to this. Pitchfork continues to turn into the NME, and this is the equivalent of that mag’s wannabe-notorious Stereolab review, even[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 10
MOTORHEAD – “We Are The Road Crew” (from the album All The Aces, and doubtless many others)
Brit-metal tends to either the fantastical or the brutally down-to-earth. Which side are Motorhead on, I w[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 9
STAR TURN ON 45 PINTS – “Pump Up The Bitter” (7″ single)
In England, the ‘answer record’ long since got elided into the ‘novelty record’ – our Top 40 is unparallel[…]

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – “Legal Man”
A goofy 60s-pop pastiche which sounds a little like the theme from Eurotrash, a little like Stereolab on a Ribena high, and a little like a group doing whatever they want, because they know their fa[…]

Signal Drench did a Top 100 albums of the 90s. I’m a sucker for top 100 albumses of the ninetieses, as you know. Signal Drench’s I mostly disagree with, especially the top end (Slint annoy me), but there’s some neat and compact writ[…]

All Music Is Bad!: in a couple of days we launch the Bad Music issue of Freaky Trigger, and to mark the occasion, a special blog is being readied, a sick mutant lock-it-in-the-attic half-brother of NYLPM which will last for the 6 weeks the new issue […]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 8
MJ HIBBETT AND THE VALIDATORS – “Hey Hey 16K” (on the album Say It With Words)
Before there were PCs or blogs or geek pride or the internet, there was the ZX Spectrum, one of the few things in this l[…]