Pitchfork Reviews The Streets: and what do I think of that? I think they do a good job, from an admittedly transatlantic perspective. After all, Original Pirate Material IS a UK hip-hop album, as much as it is a “UK garage” or “elec[…]

A magnificent triviality: the title says it all. In his excellent write-up of Original Pirate Material, it’s interesting that Marcello recommends you skip ‘Don’t Mug Yourself’ and ‘Who Got The Funk?’, the two track[…]

Britney is done.
She had a good run, some great singles ( and this is really the only thing we judge pop on anymore) and an attempt to change her sound and image.
Losing her Virginity was a career move.
Going from Lolita to Lola was a p.r stunt .
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The BBC’s 100 Greatest Heroes. From the music world we have…
Bob Geldof!
George Harrison (AKA the one who went a bit more snooker-loopy for the sitars than anyone else – NB this sd NOT be rewarded! Now if he had embranced the ZITHE[…]

Watch out Steve Penk!!! Kate from Big Brother 3 (otherwise known as my personality-lacking nemesis) is TAKING OVER Steves late night show whilst Steve is “on holiday”. Will the prescence of Kate spark new life into the dire world of comme[…]

“Blame Jim O’Rourke” says Philip Sherburne. Which is not exactly germane to the arguments he puts forward about electroclash and about techno going pop here, here and here, but is a catchy hook for a blog entry. So, yeah, electrocla[…]

Super Bad:”It is our view that (with the exception of the majority of such e-mails received, which are in, full, support of our position) all such e-mailers should, not only be concerned but outraged, over the fact that a people, whose ancestry[…]

Here is a different way of measuring the popularity of various types of music. Here are a selection of lists from the Performing Rights Society which run through the most covered artists by live acts, the most performed reggae, folk tunes and the mos[…]

I Love Music and I Love Everything have MOVED: They are now to be found at www.ilxor.com. From now on you will no longer be able to ask new questions on the old sites, and as much as possible we’ll be disabling posting too and redirecting speci[…]

SUGABABES – “Round Round”
Higgins. Cooper. Cowling. Powell. Coler. Buchanan. Buena. Range. Pflueger. Stecher. Hofmann. Spadavecchiaand. These are the twelve people who wrote “Round Round”. This is twice as many people as[…]