Something Interesting About The Beatles!: article from the Guardian (licensed from History Today) on growing up in Soviet Russia listening to the band – gets a bit dewy-eyed towards the end when it draws conclusions but mostly the article is an[…]

They will keep doing this, won’t they? On first hearing this single I was ready to rush to Blogger with an early-review hatchet-job; but where some have monkeys on their backs I have a sloth, and for once I am in its debt. I confined myself to […]

You may have noticed that things look different here. Ahem. As you probably know, Freaky Trigger has relaunched, and relaunched with not one but four (soon to be five) regular weblogs, covering a spectrum of culture where NYLPM previously covered mus[…]

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – “Senorita”
I’m kind of at a loss for words here. I’ve made ripping JT into one of my favorite online activities, but now I’m presented with a song that minimizes the things I hate about his sin[…]

Weirdly disappointed and frustrated by this thread on ILX. Partly at myself – my arguments won’t cohere and so I’m just batting replies around – but partly at something I’ve noticed when talking about certain records. Th[…]

V/A – “Straight From The Bedroom E.P.’s #1-3
V/A – Lord of the Decks: The Fellowship of the Mic
Straight From The Bedroom was a 3rd Paty/Kemet sub-label that existed for all of three releases, namely these. They are, as far a[…]

We both know what Chingy means when he says, ‘Give me what you got for a pork chop/She threw it at me like I was a shortstop.’ Chingy gets his easy piece of meat; she gets her own in return. But the it could also be the pork chop, right? […]

Look, don’t give me that. For one thing, if they can still fill arenas over here in the States, somebody likes ’em, and more to the point, scratch just about half of the bands who currently make up the power-pop-punk-nu-metal mob here or[…]

If you’re already down with the new album, regardless of your reasons (though I really hope they’re better than Gina’s), then you already know where I’m going. However, if you’re a whip-smart Guyville fan up in a tizzy […]

Look, look – Indie is king. 28% of platinum albums in the UK last year were on indie labels. Actually further perusal of the story tells you that the true figure is 39% but that included albums which went multiple platinum – which is a di[…]