The Jubilee Stuff – the fourth and penultimate section.[…]

Let’s Push Things Forward: if people are going to keep on talking about acid house, then a crucial point to remember is that over here the acid fuse wasn’t lit by the records, it was lit by the clubs – Balearic Beats, as the style w[…]

SANDY & JUNIOR – Love Never Fails
PAULINA RUBIO – Don’t Say Goodbye
So, next round of Latin American superstars trying to get all the fame and money (but moslty fame) out of the US market, but probably this time neither of th[…]

Alan Lomax Dies
Alan Lomax,The Music Collecter who saved the entire history of American Folk Music on his reel to reel, has died at the age of 87 at a Sarasota Flordia Nursing Home. This was the man who recorded not only the Carter Family, Woody Guth[…]

The Jubilee Stuff – part three.[…]

Who Needs Eminem? – apart from its odd conviction that an Australian rock band can tell us anything much about how British bands think and work, Christian Hoard’s piece is a pretty fair summing-up of the British rock (and rockpress) dilem[…]

“Ours is better silence: it’s digital. Theirs is only analogue.”: more on current top music news story, Cage Vs Batt.[…]

100 albums you should remove from your record collection: do we sense someone with a few college-rock “issues” here? One of the most disturbing things about this feature is that 99% of them are considered to be the ‘classics’ […]

pearls that are his eyes: a very welcome return for Kathleen (my current longest-standing mixtape debt, in a highly competitive field). First Josh Blog comes back , then Vain, Selfish, Lazy, now Pearls…it’s like 2000 all over again! Surel[…]

MOMUS – “King Solomon’s Mines”
I have been reading a fair amount of Near Eastern Erotic Verse for a class. Reading Sumerian, Tamil, Egyptian, Hebraic and Greek variations on the same themes get repetitive, and this song plays […]