CD:UK Hotshots – the moral decline of pop continues apace a.k.a. set the videos! Plus – Richard X meets Liberty X (RX not exactly taxed on the “new ideas” front but great to have “Being Boiled” back in the charts);[…]

When Ur A Clone…: blog I hadn’t seen before, linked by Oh, Manchester… who correctly calls it “poptastic”. Has the midweek charts – the interesting thing is that David Sneddon’s only sold 19,000 records so fa[…]

I’ll admit it, I didn’t like ‘What I Go To School For’ when it first came out, I thought oh no, not a boy band with guitars, and no drummer, what new evil is this? But then as time went by it clicked, these guys aren’t s[…]

Into ’03 With The Real Music Martyrs: well, not really because despite a staggering five Reality-Pop singles in the charts this week the only thing that’s been pushed out is “Addicted To Love” by Shake vs Robert Palmer, which […]

Lunes Felices: “Diagnostico confirmado: Pete Baran es un nabazo.”. A run through various inadequate translation software doesn’t tell me what precisely Pete Baran is but it does tell me we have a dissatisfied and thoughtful reader h[…]

“Six years ago, my record collection reflected a human being who was quite limited. Now it reveals an interesting adult.”: Future Sound Of London – they’re back and they’re still talking about their record collections.[…]

Everybody’s favourite new rock band The Libertines do the interview thing with The Guardian. Surely Michael Bracewell designed them in a lab??[…]

Tee hee.
(Thanks to M. Matos for the link.)[…]

Dolly Parton-9 to 5
I think country is Dolly clicking her nails in 9 to 5
I posted this as an after thought to an ilm thread about defining genre, and i wanted to expand it. I think that country rests much more on improvisation out of necessity, or […]

Download This! (2002) – 40 to 21: almost there on my review of the year. I’ll say at this point that it’s been really great writing all this – and hopefully my enthusiasm will carry over to doing a bit more here and on the res[…]