This evening at 7PM on Resonance FM, we’re proud to announce the return of Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop, our hour-long radio show which mixes talk, music, insight and foolishness in arbitrary amounts.
Here’s what the scheduler s[…]

I have never actually heard anything by Burial before and he turns out to be one of those musicians whose stuff sounds exactly like everyone says it does. In the case of Burial that’s a good thing as everyone has been turning cartwheels over hi[…]

GWEN STEFANI – “What You Waiting For”
Tick tock tick tock – generally with any top 100 list there are some very recent records that slip into the rundown thanks to the immediate enthusiasm of the participants and stick out a b[…]

I know a few weeks is an eternity in blogging time, but it’s worth drawing some attention to Frank Kogan’s intervention in the Sasha Frere-Jones/Carl Wilson ‘problem with indie’ debate that was raging a fortnight or so ago. He[…]

Rewards and Fairies was Rudyard Kipling’s follow-up to his extremely successful Puck Of Pook’s Hill, though it’s best-known now for containing Britain’s Best-Loved Poem, aka “If-“. My last encounter with that poem […]

If you were at the Poptimism night, and if you took a CD home, here’s what you heard.

TURISAS – “To Holmgard And Beyond” (from the album The Varangian Way)
TRASH YOURSELF AND THE TOXIC AVENGER – “Song 2” (so[…]

Nick Southall on the end of Stylus and how web 2.0 has changed the criticism game.
Blogged as a marker to myself, really, though one sensible response on my part would be to stop thinking so much about music criticism and just get on with some.[…]

As a marketer it gives me shudders of appaling delight to see phrases like “moving up the Value Funnel” in a music comments box, so you can imagine I’ve found Hypebot’s posts on “the rise of the Musical Middle Class&#822[…]

Stylus Magazine is closing – I never read it as much as I ought but there was some good stuff in it, especially William B Swygart’s Singles Jukebox blog. This started off as WBS’ rantings about the week’s UK Top 40 – a s[…]

This album came out at a troubled time for its superstar singer. The singer had hit international fame with a provocative, ambiguously sexual image, and had then gone on to work with some of the hottest names in black music – though many critic[…]