my old friend p, just arrived in trinidad for a family funeral, txts me:
“it is a very small village, jungle-like really, and guess what? someone is playing COLDPLAY!”[…]

It is so strange. It refutes the nobility of poverty that is so
canonical in country. Though it features grinding poverty, welfare
taking the children away, and dying babies, it also has a mother selling
her child into white slavery. But the oddest t[…]

Perhaps its a symptom of being out of the country for a few weeks, but blanket posters for the new Oasis album are keeping me in fits of giggles. Don’t Believe The Truth is a desperate title for even the notable unselfconscious Gallagher brothe[…]

If you have a copy of Poptimism CD3 (with the girl drinking cola from the bottle on the cover) then here is what you might end up listening to:
1. COWBOY TROY – “I Played Chicken With The Train” – hoedown hip-hop from the huge[…]

The Flying Lizards – Get Up (I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine)”
The first time I heard this I thought it was terrible. It seemed to be an arch version which focussed on the inanity of “Sex Machine”‘s lyrics, i.e. staggeri[…]

Every now and then the Guardian’s real actual comments pages address a musical topic. Freed from the sensible confines of the arts section these are reliably bonkers provocative and are definitely the most entertaining musical coverage the pape[…]

1) the girl with the golden voice– has all of these connections to money and class, to fame, pop desire that completely is against the idea of hazzards–radical reinvention of american pop culture. everyone knows golden voice means golden […]

Live 8, Sail 8… this can only end one way:[…]

Radio 1’s seemingly never-ending devotion to the Coldplay album — exclusive tracks! interviews! reports on the making of the record! — repeats the farce of their coverage of the Robbie Williams Knebworth concerts. When a section of […]

Bob G says in this morning’s Observer (can’t find the link, sorry) that in order to raise the most awareness for African debt relief he needs the biggest selling artists, hence African musicians are being left off. “It’s not a[…]