The Fakeways Institute is Momus’ latest wheeze. Beware the flashing lights, those of you prone to headaches or fits. Everyone else dive in! (My partial take on fakeness and authenticity: here, and yes Josh, I will reply to your comments on it o[…]

Viva les Blemishes!: “If you were to collate a list of the first 50 singles put out by Rough Trade, I would aver that any label would be hard pressed to impress me more. There is such an incredible mix of inventiveness and edginess”[…]

rockcritics.com: of all the hem hem thousands of links I’ve received, this gives me the greatest honour. What a fantastic idea for a site: I shall pay tribute by stealing all their links.
This is as good a time as any to mention that the Octobe[…]

Rebel without a brain: review of Eminem live, from The Guardian. Apparently it’s bad or silly or something for “upper middle class” people to like Eminem – why this should be so goes, as usual, unexplained, possibly because wh[…]

The Battle For English Soul: shhh! it’s a secret! This piece won’t ‘officially’ go on the main FT page until tonight (i.e. when I’ve found a picture for it), but readers of nylpm get a look at Robin Carmody’s epic […]

New on Freaky Trigger: a review of Lambchop’s Nixon.[…]

Alistair Fitchett writing in Tangents sums up pretty much what I also felt about the Baxendale contribution to Papercuts’ giveaway CD, which I promise I’ll write more about myself soon.[…]

‘Sabotage’ greatest music video ever: this is the results of a poll taken by Promo magazine – over four weeks last month, I went and saw all of these and more at the NFT. While it’s certainly true that “Sabotage” i[…]

Radical Man!: New Radicals frontman to co-write Ronan Keating’s next single. No comment.[…]

Riot For Romance!: I think this is a fantastic image of Johnny Rotten, from the generally excellent Oh Messy Life. It captures the romanticism of the Pistols perfectly – or rather, the feeling that they operated in a culture where doing what th[…]