Tanya fans look sharp: the archives to I Hate Music have finally been sorted out courtesy of NYLPM mainstay Pete Baran. Tomorrow afternoon Pete, myself and a number of other reprobates will be putting the final touches on the Freaky Trigger Revival a[…]

They may well never have met, let alone shared studio air but Blu and Sean have still crossed the line separating “featuring” from “duet”. The two-hander has Blu saying she’ll go and Sean telling her no, and plays exquis[…]

The Guardian on Amy Studt. If there was ever a red rag to a NYLPM bull it would be this subheading: “The latest pop phenomenon is 17, stunning, and managed by the Spice Girls’ Simon Fuller. But Amy Studt’s unique selling point, say[…]

Okay, for all my bigging them up – the Busted! album actually isn’t that good. Its perfectly serviceable in a pop way but very few of the songs ever quite reach the dizzying heights of silliness that Year 3000 or What I Go To School For d[…]

Guilty thought: I’d like this song much more as an instrumental or even as a ‘song’, not a rap. Everything just clicks: the processed guitar strum that’s like Shek’spere with dirt under his nails, the string swells, the[…]

What is it about Crazy In Love, by Beyonce* that makes me think it isn’t finished. It just does not quite have a chorus, which bugs me a touch but considering the rest of the tune is a jittery, brass-led piece of brilliance it does not bother m[…]

TOM’S GLASTONBURY SPECIAL TOP 10
JUNIOR SENIOR – “Twist And Shout/Push It”
BEYONCE feat JAY-Z – “Crazy In Love”
THE DARKNESS – “Street Spirit”
THE RAPTURE – “House Of Jealous Lov[…]

Freaky Trigger has a new e-mail address: freakytrigger at hotmail dot com (click on that link to say hello to us). This one is accessible to all editorial staff so your mail has a better chance of being read, replied to etc etc.
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I certainly would not have wanted to be the person to write the main song for the Charlie’s Angels sequel. How do you even get close to both the outstanding brilliance of Independent Woman Part 1 or indeed how do you dovetail the fun of the son[…]

Liz Phair-Hot White Cum (HWC)
It sounds like an 80s sit com, and the lyrics aren’t nearly as dirty or poignant as they used to be. I expected some small punk novelty, like Avril gone porno, it is the safest of the safe, and that counts all of […]