“Where Is Thousand?”, you might well be asking. I’ll be kicking off again tonight, but meanwhile Robin Carmody has missed it so badly he’s decided to do his own version.[…]

Revolution In The Head: Simon Reynolds’ long piece on Kid A from last Autumn. Well worth reading whether you like that record or not (I’m very interested in his semi-confession on his own site that he’s not listened to it much since[…]

The Sounds Of Silence: long and extremely interesting article about John Cage’s 4’33”. Wish I could remember where I got it from. Anyway it gets a little precious in places but that’s forgiveable given that Cage’s piece […]

Random Electronica Subgenres: ho ho ho. Actually not very funny because half of them exist. I oscillate between thinking micro-genres are a good thing because they annoy people and a bad thing because debate about the music swiftly dissolves into &#8[…]

Weblogs weblogs weblogs: this is Ghost Tropic, a new site which touches on music and links to us. If you link to us we will link back to you. That is how weblogs work. People who do not agree are elitist scum. Can’t they go and live in Russia?
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Did you know that Mark Knopfler has a dinosaur named after him? Well, he does. And this dinosaur is special, because the teeth in its lower jaw jut out horizontally from their gums. Now that’s what I call a rock & roll dinosaur, baby! […]

Am I Cool Or Not?: a very close one this week, perhaps to the surprise of some of our respondents. And a new victim, of course….[…]

when did motion learn to write like this?: about the pixies, of all things.[…]

John Fahey 1939-2001
Forty-two years ago John Fahey released an album of solo acoustic guitar based upon classical structures – Bartok played by Mississippi John Hurt being the simple concept – in an edition of 100 with money made as a ga[…]

NME sales decline: they’ve been concentrating on the online market – and it shows, nme.com is about twice as good as the print version. I of course can see how their online readership’s going too due to my job working for THE MAN (t[…]