BLUR – “Don’t Drop The Bomb When You’re The Bomb”Hmm. It’s not electro, it’s not indie rock, it’s not house, it’s not pop, it’s not coherent or consistent, it’s not techno; I could pr[…]

Quite frankly, if ever I encounter the inventor of The (quirky and preferrably plural) Noun for Garage bands, I’ll hit him with my special edition Stratocaster. But for all you Datsuns/Barracudas and Vipers loving fuzz-freaks, I direct you to t[…]

So you form an incediary rock band to change the face of music. You have a manifesto, you have the soundbites, you eventually learn to play your insturments. Your debut album is a double and will be “the last album you ever release”. It d[…]

Farben – Silikon
11 pm on Thanksgiving night, a bunch of suitably overstuffed Americans. I want to put on some music to sleep to, as the last several days had been filled with the oldies station on the four hour drive to Bellingham and Nancy&#[…]

According to Pierre at ExitTheApple.com, Hip Hop is dead. WhatEVAH.
Stevie Nixed’s Top Eleven! The Coup – Me and Jesus the Pimp… Missy Elliott – Work It TLC – Girl Talk Foo Fighters – All My Life MOP – Cold […]

Released on Christmas Eve in 1990, in a shrewd move to get a number one thanks to the loyalty of Maiden fans, I doubt if anyone who wasn’t already a fan bought it. Still the only chart topping single I’ve ever bought (though I can’t[…]

“A time has come to make a decision, are we in this thing alone? Or are we in it……together!” It’s the kind of spoken voice sample that you might associate with some massive rave anthem. But the strained and looped respon[…]

Michaelangelo Matos goes out to dinner and hears some music there.[…]

XZHIBIT – “Choke Me, Spank Me (Pull My Hair)”
X’s paean to rough sex fails because a)the hump-thump beat is strictly missionary-position; b)X sounds far too polite about it (and isn’t creepy enough to work that to his ad[…]

Whirlybird: a familiar and pleasing aesthetic – wonder who’s behind it? Great to see Mike Jones’ Boris Becker piece get an online airing, too![…]