OK, now this is just really pathetic…[…]

MICHEL’LE – “No More Lies”I was flipping channels this morning while getting ready for work and stumbled across this 80s gem on MTV Jams. Suddenly, I was 16 years old again, dancing in the family room with dad’s stereo […]

Top Ranking – the genius of Soul Jazz, by me, leading off the first proper Freaky Trigger update in a while (moving house had got me out of the swing of things, sorry). There’s also Anthony Easton’s analysis of the country music vid[…]

Primal Scream — “Miss Lucifer” [Alec Empire remix]
Said the XFM-presenter: ‘If Alec Empire were to remix this, the world’I don’t want to make September 11th thingies but’it would end.’. Riiiight. Now, […]

Eminem – “Without Me”
When I first started paying attention to music, it was music on the radio – the top 40 – that I payed attention to. There were lots of things I didn’t like, but that was immaterial given that […]

Freezing to Death in the Nuclear Bunker is Jody Beth Rosen’s “rockblog” which for once in my life I stumbled upon not because it links to me! (I followed a link on rockcritics.com’s Top Fives). And as she says herself, she too[…]

Xinlisupreme – “All You Need Is Love Was Not True” b/w “Kyoro/CLose”
I can offer nothing rational (haha, not like last night, eh Jess?) on this slab of oddly fey brutality, because like most things which drown good inten[…]

Tom’s Top Ten!
UNKNOWN – “Lisa’s Got Hives”
SONS OF THE PIONEERS – “Old Man Atom”
CUTTY RANKS – “Wake Da Man”
THE BAND – “Whispering Pines”
WYCLEF JEAN – &#8220[…]

Self Indulgent? Never… Moderately amusing review of last night’s Manitoba / Four Tet date at Edinburgh’s Belle Angele venue. Notable mostly for classic local paper take on contemporary electronic music, complete with awful puns (&#8[…]

Where did the music go?: you’ll probably all have seen this Jaron Lanier essay, if you’ve been browsing the sidebar links here – it’s been talked about in Michaelangelo Matos’ and Nate Patrin’s blogs and probably s[…]