Boycott RIAA – quite interesting as a news point, not sure what the money you give them for mugs, mousemats etc. will actually be used for (not some file-sharing legal defense fund, probably). The central problem though is that a boycott of the[…]

Norman Phay on the Human League – it is very odd to read Norman’s stuff without his ILXoR turbohacker stylings, but this is great stuff – simple, direct, good points well made. More![…]

Mu – “Let’s Get Sick”
Mustumi Kanamori and Maurice Fulton detonate five explosives during this improper house track. One can only presume that they are directed at symbols of the deep-house community. Possible targets: Shelter[…]

Music industry saved by ringtones!: another arrow in the quiver of the pro-filesharing lobby, this – if the music biz is able to exploit new revenue streams so well, can it really be hurting as bad as the RIAA etc. suggest? Ringtones work as a […]

702 – “I Still Love You”
Pharrell,
“I Still Love You” still makes me float after at least 100 plays. It’s like Kool & the Gang’s “Summer Madness” that way – it’s a romantic song […]

My links are in a dreadful state – I was meaning to update them this weekend but I haven’t. Thankfully the oldest rule of the weblog still applies – keep an eye on your referrals and the links they will come. I Feel Love is a music […]

People who think like I think are certain that the songs on a compilation with ‘post-punk’ in the title should be from the late ’70s or the early ’80s. Most of the songs on Rough Trade Shops Post Punk 01 fit into that frame of[…]

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OK you’re not exactly crying out for a review of the Victoria Beckham single but it’s too hot to actually think about music and VB doesn’t require you to. This is Vic’s “Jenn[…]

The Ataris-Boys of Summer
The fury of the guitars provide a wall of noise, pushing the chorus along of course but it does something else. Don Henley’s orginal is a paen to middle class nostalgia–it is a way to remember that warm summer n[…]

New Evanescence single: debut airing on the American Teen Awards 2003. It’s really not fair to keep us watching with the promise of a new album from x-Nysync star JC Chasez but instead give us the black clad American equivalent of the Cranberri[…]