The Eminem backlash backlash starts here in a most amusing fashion. When the moral majority comes out against some horrific artist (as has happened in the last week) acadaemia may slowly and eventually rear its head to look at the car crash. Here we […]

Pop Eye finds me in particularly grumpy mood this week. Of course the charts would turn poor the moment we launch P-E as its own page. There’s a poll though, so run and look.[…]

soulDecision Comment On The Nature Of Pop Music: You need only look at soulDecision to know that they are not a boy band, oh dear no. And the article concurs: “However, when real pop music comes along we now tend to lump it wrongly in with *NYS[…]

Rare to find a thinkpiece I agree with so unequivocally as this one from an Atlanta paper about the joy of Now – as in, the moment in pop, not the compilation album, although that would fit the rubric. (via scrubbles.
And it’s also rare t[…]

Glass Music: this is the most interesting-sounding thing I’ve read about in Pitchfork for a while.[…]

By far and away the pinacle in imaginary They Might Be Giants awfulness – We Put The A In Accordian – is an almost prog-rock type number which explains almost their entire career away as some sort of sad, sorry joke. It is only a matter o[…]

Not to turn this into an argument or owt – but my point was somewhat different. I suggested that if we had not seen that particular edition of Top Of The Pops then it is highly unlikely that Kernkraft 400 would have made it on to the list in th[…]

I beg to differ. As I recall Kernkraft 400 did so well in the focus group because relations between the Robbie Williams faction and the Baha Men faction had severely deteriorated and a compromise candidate was required. Apologies if this shatters any[…]

Top Of The Pops relaunch. Of course ver Pops (I refuse to call it TOTP as the fashion has had it since five years ago) has had more relaunches than the Ark Royal – and this news is merely news by its lack of newsworthiness. The important facto[…]

Am I Cool Or Not?: a tenth victim – plus! updated archives![…]