My latest column for Pitchfork looks at tastemaking and consensus in British music. It’s an ambitious column- almost certainly too ambitious, so I’ll use this post to briefly talk about some of the stuff that didn’t get in it and a[…]

Judging by Technorati, responses to this Carl Wilson piece – “The Trouble With Indie Rock” – have mostly focused on his dismantling of Sasha Frere-Jones’ argument about the lack of ‘miscegenation’ in indie ro[…]

Idolator has been having a good deal of snarky fun about the OiNK bust, and it’s been very entertaining to read, but the fast-moving nature of that site means that the most interesting post of the last few days, Jess Harvell’s despairing […]

This week’s theme is the nineties – as ever, no revealing in the comments box kthx![…]

This week’s tracks are on the theme of the EIGHTIES. As ever, no identification in the comments box please![…]

(There is no nu-blogosphere, sillies. These people have mostly been going for ages in one form or another, it’s just that this befuddled old veteran hadn’t paid much attention until the roundtable stuff last week prompted him to start l[…]

A trendy concept in marketing currently is occasion-based marketing – the idea is that rather than advertise the product, you advertise the occasion in which the product might be consumed. This is what the ad campaign for C2 – Carling&#82[…]

This is a set of 40 reviews of tracks on the Radio 1 anniversary compilation album, Established 1967. They were originally written for Stylus Magazine, where some of them appeared in the Singles Jukebox section. I wrote them “C90Go!” sty[…]

This week’s tracks are on the theme of the Seventies (readers may see a pattern emerging). Enjoy them, even if you’re not playing the LJ game, but don’t say what they are in the comments boxes![…]

So if, as Ned says in the comments box to my blog post, yr online self is necessarily dissipated these days, why not use blogging as a way of bringing it together? If I feel this ‘works’ I’ll try to do it regularly – this is a[…]