Here is an idea. Pick a date and select a record – more than one if you like. Make it a record you think you can write something about. When the date comes round, play the record and write as much or as little as you like about it. Then wait a […]

Tom’s Top Ten!
XINLISUPREME – “Kyoro”
MOCKY – “Fuck All Night”
DERRICK LARO AND TRINITY – “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough”
WIRE – “Germ Ship”
THE CORAL – “[…]

THE RAPTURE – “Olio”
A trick that’s sometimes served me well: you look for the similarities in things that you’re told are different and you look for the differences in things you’re told are the same. Or to put it[…]

Now I remember why I never linked David’s blog before – there’s something about it which fucks up the browser bar and makes it impossible to keep the screen still. Fingers crossed this doesn’t happen on your machine cos it loo[…]

The MP3 Party: go back to your file-sharers and prepare for government. (via Cha Cha Cha)[…]

“Conscious Estrangement”: I am linking to this because it’s very nice about me, oh yes, but also because I don’t quite agree. Firstly I don’t think ‘we’ have had any impact beyond the individual level –[…]

Restate My Assumptions: another music – well sometimes music – blog. He doesn’t like the Coral, he writes a lot about the Gentle Waves, he’s young, it looks good.[…]

SPICE GIRLS – Wannabe

This tuesday i went to check out a blowout sale and kept admiring this for ages and ages so i finally decided to buy it after much thinking(i mean, it was only 5 reais). Oh well, did i made myself happy by buying this si[…]

This seems reasonable but I wonder how much I actually agree with Douglas Wolk’s Village Voice analysis of what we might have called, if someone hadn’t thought of this a few years ago, the new wave of new wave. Wolk says that he ‘ca[…]

diskant – “a network of websites by independent fanzines, bands and record labels”, based in Glasgow and included here because it’s doing a good thing and because I want to make more effort with my links sidebar and this serve[…]