josh blog is back, you’ll be pleased to hear.[…]

I am always a but suspicious when I see stories like this: Beyonce Knowles warning kids not to become pop stars. This is not that dissimilar to the bitching Michael Jackson did about the music industry at the weekend, though Beyonce has decided not t[…]

What do you talk about, when you talk about music? Because I don’t remember. I remember sitting in a car at two in the morning, waking the neighbours with the talk. I remember beers and hoarse throats, the hush of listening, the glee, the mocke[…]

PREEYA KALIDIS – “Shakalaka Baby”
This could and should have been a lot stronger. It’s the lead single from Bombay Dreams, the West End’s first ‘Bollywood musical’, with tunes provided by A R Rahman, the youn[…]

Some excerpts from my aborted notes to Mark Sinker’s epic “noise” essay (themselves a bastardization of an aborted essay on Lester Bangs/Richard Meltzer [just be thankful I left out the two paragraphs comparing Steve Albini to Dean […]

I am almost certain that the music that gets played at School Disco.com (though what is with that stupid suffix?) is more enjoyable than the music that gets played at Cream, but I still share the undercurrent of unease running through Alexis Petridis[…]

Grokepile is back!: I can upload again! (Get your requests in now.)[…]

Freaky Trigger vs The Cockfarmers – slight return.[…]

GEORGE MICHAEL – Shoot The Dog
Not the first person you would imagine knocking out an anti-American political song – George Michael. Certainly it is not the first time George has wandered down the route of po-facedness – both Songs […]

WILLIE NELSON – WILLIE NELSON’S GREATEST HITS…AND SOME THAT WILL BE
Dig this: a little girl is born in the middle of WWII. She is Italian and she is Catholic and from Brooklyn. She also more than a little sensitive, in a good way. I[…]