Oh, sure, he came off as street smart & gruff, talking smack about smack users and transvestities and other miscreants, showing off his track marks like the badges of courage he wants them to be, living the Raymond Chandler pulp life he epitomize[…]

Yeah, as if I wasn’t going to take the opportunity to talk about The Cure’s new single on NYLPM. One thing notable about this song is the strong beat. One thing that Jason Cooper has brought to the group is a much less abstract sense of[…]

(and the) native hipsters are back! With a retrospective compilation CD featuring “There Goes Concorde Again” and a lot of other stuff. Buy buy buy! (Thanks to the band themselves for putting me onto that)[…]

Raspberry World Music Blog – shock! gasp! A music weblog by somebody I don’t already know![…]

Jay-Z: The Blueprint: you won’t believe it’s Pitchfork. (i.e. Ethan is writing about hip-hop as if it was the best-selling and most important music in America instead of something titillating to listen to between Of Montreal albums).[…]

Found on a John Cage messageboard: “I was searching through napster recently and i was curious to see if anyone had 4’33 as an MP3 on their computer. It turns out that 27 people had it, but not one of the recordings was 4’33 seconds[…]

JANET JACKSON (featuring Missy Elliott) — “Son of a Gun (Remix)”
PINK — “Get This Party Started”
Once upon a time, a footloose and fancy-free Janet whimsically daydreamed about that special someone in the bar with […]

“A pint of lager and a vodka and slimlime tonic please”. It’s wrong to laugh at the people who say “slimline” instead of “diet”, I’m sure it is. But what if it’s just post-work, you’re in a […]

Media Notice – for immediate release
Beeland Concepts announces new drinking concept set to call time on Britain’s tired pubs
Britain’s pubs will never be the same again, thanks to a revolutionary new concept by gastro-pub-leisure-c[…]

The FT mailbag has been heaving under the weight of, well, three comments on the David Bowie radio show. Two out of the three were favourable but in the interests of balance and to curry sympathy here’s the hostile one (also it points out some […]