BOB DYLAN – The Never Ending Tour
Happy Birthday Bob. No, really. I mean it. Whatever you say, sixty is a milestone that a lot of musicians don’t make. Look at Lennon. People think he is more of a genius than you. Why? Because he’s […]

We’re whoring for BBC Online today – as the proof finally comes in that Napster and mp3’s are destroying the music industy. Oh, but the proof is that record sales have gone up. Ooops. Whilst record sales have been down for a while t[…]

You’ll be seeing this link in a few places: Pitchfork sluts for hits and gets Brent DiCrezcenzo to review Tool’s record. I’m linking to it because I think it’s funny (ha ha). My current despair at the very notion of ever writi[…]

Radiohead on for biggest chart hit: i.e. No.2, behind DJ Pied Piper whose single is called, perhaps aptly, “Do You Really Like It?” Good old BBC Online and their nose for a crucial entertainment story.[…]

LUDACRIS
Ludacris is the kind of guy your mother warned you about. But then so is your average flasher, and Moby aside nobody offers them a record deal. “What’s Your Fantasy” is a three-minute job application for Fiesta Letters, and[…]

LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS – “Why I Love Country Music”
“We feel fine / We’re killing time / Well what’s the crime?”
One of the first pieces of music criticism I remember reading was a cold dismissal of Ll[…]

THE PUB OF FAILURE – Revisited
Those with long publog memories will no doubt remember The Blue Posts Pub Crawl which took place just before Christmas last (after which it is safe to say that the Rupert Street Blue Posts – or the pub of se[…]

I’ve been travelling round the country a lot with work lately, and usually end up on licensed premises, since the meeting I go to take place in pubs. A few recent visits are worthy of a few notes.
The Elephant and Castle, Wakefield – Situ[…]

A TOUCH OF CLASS – “Around the World”/LA MONTE YOUNG AND THE THEATRE OF ETERNAL MUSIC BRASS BAND – The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From the Four Dreams of China
The second on my walkman’s t[…]

NIRVANA – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”/PEARL JAM – “Even Flow”
Two tracks that together helped define the “Seattle sound.” What seems most striking now is that if they’d been released five years soo[…]