Two more tracks:[…]

For the past few months I’ve been reading The Hobbit aloud to my wife – it’s relaxing for both of us and good practise for future readings to a probably more restless audience. I think it’s the first time I’ve read the b[…]

No revealing in comments! No theme either – just enjoy the anonymised pop…[…]

GIRLS ALOUD – “Fling”
The last Girls Aloud album, Chemistry, came with an excellent bonus disc of Christmas songs, including originals like “Not Tonight Santa” and “Christmas Round At Ours”, stuffed with good[…]

Imagine you are an unscrupulous Market Research* company who enjoys both Pepsi and Coke as clients. They both ask you independently to conduct a taste test** on consumers, each in the knowledge and expectation that their superior product will win. Ho[…]

Pepsi’s big new idea – launching later this year apparently – is PEPSI RAW. Guess what this could possibly mean and then find out: (more…)[…]

Important scientific breakthrough: man-size sea scorpion found.
Dr Braddy thinks the large scales may have had a lot to do with the absence early on of vertebrate predators. As they came on the scene, these animals would have eaten all the biggest pr[…]

This week’s tracks are from the NOUGHTIES. No reveals in the comments box please!
Track 1: http://freakytrigger.s3.amazonaws.com/audio/pop_open/Noughties1.mp3
Track 2: http://freakytrigger.s3.amazonaws.com/audio/pop_open/Noughties2.mp3
Track 3:[…]

This month’s Poptimist column is basically a review of the Britney Spears album. I have slightly mixed feelings about it (the column not the album, which is a TOP POP SMASHER) – some of the ideas in the piece are “notational”[…]

Philip Sherburne’s techno year-end review in Pitchfork: because he’s writing for a potentially non-clubbing audience, Sherburne keeps things simple and top-level. Because he’s an fine and perceptive writer, he’s able to do th[…]