Since I have professed my love for the banjo before, it will come as no surprise as to how much I like Nelly Furtado’s Powerless. Despite the classic second album “poor ole me lyrics”, the other Nelly has managed to strap her tradem[…]

40. BROADCAST — ‘Colour Me In’
It starts with a lever being thrown on an old calliope machine found in a cave in the middle of an ocean of ice. The frozen gears begin to turn, the painted metal shrieks with stress, rimed lights glow[…]

Sherburne in Chile: photos, worth it for the Jan 4 one alone really![…]

Dave Stelfox‘ stuff on music and cultural context got me thinking a lot towards the end of last year — since he’s brought the subject up again lately, time to reply. Stelfox’ basic point — more attention to content and c[…]

Wow – there is an unlikely celebrity pairing. Mind you I have seen Seinfeld and it was unclear he would ever get hitched to anyone. He eats stuff out of the bin after all. As long as it isn’t touching anything else.
Any potential connecti[…]

The only recent PSB tracks I really like are the ones which cast Neil Tennant as a spectre at the celebrity feast; too old, too wise, cursed to observe. ‘Flamboyant’ is one of these — a darker cousin to ‘Shameless’ with […]

50. FABOLOUS feat TAMIA — ‘Into You’
As I write this I’ve been married two months to a woman I’ve been with for twelve years. There were times when I thought it was going nowhere, when I’d have put money against us[…]

Freaky Trigger Tracks Of 2003: This was meant to be an article, and was meant to be one of a number of year-end articles going up around this time. Unfortunately we’re still in a bit of a limbo vis-a-vis getting our domain name transferred to o[…]

I saw Isabel coming back from Christmas shopping with a very interesting looking GAME carrier bag so it might well be that come the 25th I will be looking for an excuse not to bother writing an end-of-year round-up. Luckily Jess has given me one by d[…]

My Favourite New Band of 2003! are Komatrohn – a quick look at that website will show you that they’ve been going since 2001 but they’re new to me, so there. They make very fast, very pop electro which all sounds wonderfully 8-bit. […]