Now that’s what I call white noise: now that’s what I call faff, as the Guardian’s redesign has made it really difficult to find the odd little bits of G2. Anyway, here’s Jonathan Romney, probably the best arts columnist in Br[…]

The suspicion is that this is a pisstake but it doesn’t work either way – EastWesterly Review – Passivity & Victimhood in Britney Spears’ “. . . Baby, One More Time”. The main reason I’m blogging it is b[…]

The ever-wonderful Mired on the Napster/Metallica thing (thanks Mike).[…]

Dancing About Architecture is a year old and I still haven’t got round to writing the piece I promised them. Bad me. Anyway, this issue has a review of The Coup and some words about Ian Dury.[…]

MORRISSEY – “Bengali In Platforms” (from the album Viva Hate)
A link to my piece on Morrissey was published on a big Moz website, and it garnered much praise but also caused a bit of controversy. This ‘review’ is my repl[…]

English suburbs and small towns have a hard time of it in pop: their main contribution is as places to leave, bleak regions which the likes of Siouxsie or Brett Anderson must break free of in order to fulfil their pop destiny. English pop shows its A[…]

CHEAP TRICK – “I Want You To Want Me” (from the LP In Color)
ORANGE JUICE – “Consolation Prize” (from the LP You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever)
Cheap Trick’s crunchy, brainy stadium-powerpop and Orange J[…]

Meet Sen. Kerrey, MP3 Pirate?: from Wired.[…]

BOBBY – “Dogeared” (MP3)
Too good to be true, really. Somebody comes to Freaky Trigger via doing an AltaVista search on “clever music”. They chat to me via HumanClick. Not so promising since I only like Dumb Music, hur h[…]

The sound of violence: also from The Guardian. The problem here is that I don’t buy this idea of violent images ‘subverting’ pop, because it assumes that the visuals dominate the music, when I’d say the relationship, especiall[…]