Get This Indie Out of Our Charts
How in God’s name are Wilco at number eight this week? Easy: they’ve crossed over to the hippie/frat audience. (This portion may not have much resonance for our British readers, who are apparently untroubl[…]

The Square Table: 2/ The Ordinary Boys – “Talk Talk Talk”
Pop Rating: 407 Controversy Score: 204 Length:
Yelling the words “grey and boring” in your chorus is tempting fate, and sure enough fate rears up and grabs the[…]

“Peace and Love… or nothing at all”: trolls (or critics?) make poor George Michael shut his web forum. A salutary tale for these ILX-less times.
Incidentally – a pitiful plea here – if you’re among the people who&#[…]

This is nepotism not music but oh well…
GO AND VISIT MY BROTHER’S BLOG.
k thx.
cheap larff at expense of well-known music site, c/o Clap Clap Blog. I know we shouldn’t, but it’s been ages.
Jess finishes his tour of duty. Thank[…]

Early Music Reviews (it’s long, I’m sorry)
I got this site off of Last Plane to Jakarta, and have been listening to it all morning. The idea of historic sound being only 100 years old, the idea of John Phillip Sousa to John Cage seems so […]

The Square Table: 1 / Rachel Stevens – “Some Girls”
Pop Rating: 723 Controversy Score: 205 Length: 213
He almost botches it. This is Richard X’s big shot at writing a Pop Classic and when Rachel’s vocals glide dispassion[…]

Some more Dylanology f’ya.
After the sudden spurt of Dylanology* downscreen, I’ve just finished Toby Thompson’s ‘Positively Main Street’. Like George Melly’s Revolt Into Style, it positively fizzes with contemporar[…]

note to self: polish turd of my ignorance and flaunt as badge of superiority, moral, political, cultural, whatever….
[belated link via matos: i try never to read the G on music, and this is why][…]

Will any of the Beatles make it to 64?*
Answer: yes. Ringo did 2 days ago. Good work Ringo. Coincidentally last night I was with colleagues in a restaurant and we were playing a quiz-based drinking game. If you got a question wrong you had to drink a[…]

American Soldier–Toby Keith
I do not agree with what Toby Keith has to say, I do not like the idea of soldiers in general–of killing at , really, but leftists never give him enough credit, as a performer and as a politician. The idea of[…]