This week’s tracks are on the theme of RELIGION. Go here to vote and discuss them – no revealing who did what![…]

New Pitchfork column – ostensibly about the Smiths, with an unfair glancing reference to the Sugababes and an uninformed one to Interpol – uninformed, though probably not wrong. Writing this was a bitty process and unfortunately it shows[…]

We interrupt yr regularly scheduled iced wafflings for an important artistic announcement:
BUY THIS BOOK NOW.
What’s it about? CLOCKWORK DEATH. Who will enjoy it? YOU YOUR PARTNER YOUR NAN AND YOUR CAT. Is it violent? ONLY WHEN IT’S ESSEN[…]

This week’s theme is VIOLENCE – to vote on the tracks go here. (and please don’t reveal who they’re by!)[…]

This is an expanded version of a reply to Mark S during a LiveJournal conversation about the Harry Potter books. It was written before the final book was published.
Magic in the HP books is really unlike magic in almost any other novels (kids’ […]

This week’s tracks are on the theme of PASSION – please don’t ‘spoil’ what they are. If you want to join in the voting etc. then go here.[…]

I was directed to this article by Rosie of Popular Comments Box fame (and actually a lot of this post was a reply on her LJ) – it’s a (spiked) Daily Mail piece by Oliver Postgate, creator of much loved kids’ TV icons The Clangers, […]

Playing solid Brit-soul outfit The Real Thing’s “Love’s Such A Wonderful Thing” for the first time and I’m stopped in my tracks twenty-five seconds in – “Love! Love’s such a wonderful thing – thi[…]

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards Of Pop is gearing up for its second smash-hit season – keep yr peepers peeled for date announcements – and in the meantime we’re putting together a compilation of the best bits of Season 1, as an intr[…]

This week we have five songs on the theme of LOVE. To take part in the voting, go here, or email your favourite two, in order, to leagueofpop@gmail.com (you can only vote for the ones you don’t already know!).

You can find the results for last[…]