Many people have mentioned to me over the last couple of weeks that some of my reasons for disliking particular strands of popular music are tenuous at best. I will accept this criticism on the chin, something Belle & Sebastian could never do. Wh[…]

American MTV Reporter: Hey everyone, we have Travis here in, with their big new hit. Now I’ve got to say, I’ve heard your new big hit “Stumblebum” and I think you’re really cool.
Fran: Don’t you think everyone&#821[…]

I have this cat that, for whatever reason, often shits on the floor. So that means that every morning, when I wake up, I have to pick up that cat’s little turds. Let’s imagine, for a moment, that instead of taking those feces and depositi[…]

What the FUCK is going on here? You’ve got the unsuccessful one out of the Comic Strip – you know, the one who was so ‘cool’ and ‘out there’ that not even hitting people in the face with household objects and shout[…]

MOULD IS IN THE HART
or
Tough on grunge, tough on the causes of grunge part two – the Husker Du Story.
Now having a go a Bob Mould because his surname is Mould would be the height of infantile purility, but hey, his surname is Mould right. The[…]

Ry Cooder comes to the stage, his grizzled form battered by years of scouring the planet for roots he can revive. Fingers scarred by the Zydeco wars of the early eighties he nevertheless commands a great deal of stage presence – despite the fac[…]

See the rule below vis a vis non-alphabetic double acts. As extra ammunition note that Shanks is short for Shanks Pony. Pony, in Cockney Rhyming Slang is short for Pony and Trap – which rhymes with Crap.
Bigfoot on the other hand is a mythical […]

cf. Coldplay.
Additional info: Used to be Sub Sub.
Not to be confused with: One Dove (dour Scottish pre-trip hop sonambulists), Watoo Watoo (Super Bird).[…]

Want to impress the ladies with your sensitive side fella’s? Why be content with merely owning a Jonathon Richman record, when you can be Jonathon Richman? Its easy:
1. If you really are sensitive, you have probably been in a number of fights a[…]

Motown A&R, sometime in 1978.
Stevie: Hi, Bob. I’ve finally come up with an idea for all-important follow up to my Grammy Award-winning, critically acclaimed, #1 hit album, Songs in the Key of Life.
A&R: Stevie, that’s great! Let&[…]