Spirit of ’69: Guardian pop critic Tom Cox has an absolute right to like boring music, but why does he have to be so defensive about it?[…]

Oi! GERI!. No! One thing and one thing only makes this the worst design idea I’ve ever seen on a music site. Click on the ‘natural look’ Geri picture and you too will learn the true meaning of Pop.[…]

Hope They Die Before I Get Old: veteran rock critics no longer good shocker. Entirely true, though would be more convincing if not written by the reliably plodding Jim DeRogatis.[…]

Epinions has revised its user agreements: I truly doubt this applies to any FT writers, but we have more than 5 contributors, (even excluding the ones who don’t really exist!) so please don’t submit reviews you’ve previously epinion[…]

NURSE WITH WOUND – “Two Shaves And A Shine” (from the LP An Awkward Pause)
Following my trashing of Doves on grounds of length, you might reasonably ask whether I’d like any long rock song. Here’s the answer. “Two […]

Songs that kill: someone notices that American Psycho is a book about pop music. Good article results.[…]

Up Jumps Da Meme: is there no escape from bloody memetics? Anyway, this is a great article about Timbaland which explains exactly why he’s good and what you should hear for proof – though it underrates Aaliyah’s awesome single-of-th[…]

I have no idea whether Pitchfork is right about Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature, because having asked for and got the record for my birthday I’ve played less than a third of it, out of a fear that it sounds exactly like Brent DiCrescenzo […]

The band that killed rock and roll….and I have never in my life heard one of their records.[…]

Death Rock 2000: brilliant essay by Frank Kogan from the Village Voice which touches on so many bases I couldn’t possibily comment after one reading. But you must look at it, that much I do know.[…]