WBS’ last UK Top 40 thread: William has fought the good pop fight, and finally came up against the one foe (OK, two foes) that he could not beat. Hats off to an entertaining feature, finger up to JK and Joel.
Now is as good a time as any, thoug[…]

Watch out, Spider-Man!

Too late!

What is the secret of his awesome power??

The cover of this masterpiece.
Danger: logo abuse![…]

PSBs and Alcazar
This may be old news to the future-shock accelerated world of music blogs (“Hear songs before the artists have written them!”), but looking for news of the next Alcazar album reveals that there’s another PSB collabo[…]

Bikstok Røgsystem – ‘Cigar’

One of the great things about visiting other countries: lying in bed in the hotel room after midnight (in this instance I was in Stockholm) flicking through the selection of free cable channels on the […]

POPNOSE MP3 OF THE WEEK
4. Smiley Culture – “Nuclear Weapon”
Smiley Culture’s mix of sunshine tunes and fast, funny toasting hit big in ’84 or so with the fantastic “Police Officer”. His Hold Your Tongue albu[…]

Onwards, Indie Amnesty!
The following CDs on eBay are part of the Indie Amnesty, i.e. the proceeds go to our Exeter City ‘Grecian Earn’ appeal.
Nothing painted who??!?
I think this was a Ned recommendation!
FITE!
You should probably try a[…]

Now I can read ILM in the office again it means I can rubberneck threads like this, which takes over 100 posts humming and hawing over innovation before James Blount brings up the elephant in the room, viz. nu-metal, which was clearly – in main[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
86. Janet Kay – “Silly Games”
What Humans Hear:
Ah, that’s a nice and gentle little bit of reggae. Oh and what a sweet voice. A bit high but – oh – she’s not happy. What a wistful way wit[…]

rappers write like THIS:
the indefatigable www.allhiphop.com emails to say “NAS WORKING ON NOVELS: Rap vet Nas has decided to pen his own novels.”” Probably the only surprising aspect of this really is that it’s taken rap so […]

So, what’s Toyah been up to?
TOYAH WILLCOX EXPLORES THE PARALLEL WORLDS OF ROCK & RETAIL AT BCSC CONFERENCE
Rock’n Retail are parallel worlds in many ways according to singer and actress Toyah Willcox.
Toyah, who rounded off the key […]