Rubbish Grammy Article found by Ian. An I-Spy game of cluelessness but my favourite line is this: “popular music has been enveloped by the “cultural attitude” of MTV. That is, the attitude of rebellion”. Pop music and rebellio[…]

If I Was Lush, I’d Be Pretty Pissed Off By Now: replace “making history” with “making money” and you’ll be nearer the mark, eh BBC? All Freaky Trigger has to say at this point is: go on Shaggy![…]

Fantasy Pop League: finally updated! Notice that the managers who have actually been playing are doing better than those who haven’t (with the regrettable exception of Vinny – sorry old chap but there’s always next fortnight). For t[…]

Some records join every dot. Last year, for instance, the Kelis album and the Jay-Z album and the Romeo Must Die soundtrack turned hip-hop around for me. They made sense of a lot of things – my latent love of the genre, my excitement over R&amp[…]

Most of the people replying to this dance thread listened to music during the time house and techno music appeared and club culture exploded in popularity, in Europe at least. I’m really interested in some younger people’s perspectives on[…]

Fitz of depression The Fitzroy Tavern is a bad pub on a Friday night. In fact, it may be the worst pub to meet in for a post-work drink on Fridays. After 4.45pm, it fills rapidly with assorted scumbags (suits + media types) until you find yourself […]

What was Liam Gallagher doing in Germany? Poor Robbie. First he joins Queen and now this. Does the humiliation stop?[…]

Frankly, she looks more like a love interest for John Travolta in Battlefield Earth. Jeez, it’s even scary that they still have that site up![…]

Somebody’sbeen watching too much late-70s Dr.Who: mind you, it’s nice of the Grammys to put something in for the dads. Oh no, hold on, that would be Steely Dan.[…]

Pop Eye: Pete at the controls, a new picture, two new polls, and Atomic Kitten still at No.1….[…]