Undynamic Speculation
Nicole, it would not surprise me at all if Marx were Justin’s primary collaborator on a solo album. The elder statesman of schlocky swoonpop wrote *NSYNC’s latest single, the insidiously listenable “This I Pro[…]

The Usual Excuses: a Freaky Trigger piece on pop and politics. Also – internet polemic and the site reorganisation (finally!).[…]

Undynamic Duo?
I just read in the National Enquirer (always the best source of music news, honest) that Justin Timberlake is collaborating on his solo album with Richard Marx. If true, just imagine that amount of bad hair in one place.[…]

Our cup overfloweth with sixth form humour with this classic. A direct descendant of the “Monster Mash”, just not as scary or potato based. Their Casiotone 400 “Scary Sounds” option button must have been pushed – as crea[…]

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS – Mwng
A couple of weeks ago someone posted a question about the SFA in a classic or dud kind of way on I Love Music. I was a bit late to respond and be part of the dialogue – but coming across their last album on cass[…]

Me, Le Tigre and the Internet Backlash 
Kathleen Hanna has an idea. She sings it thoughtfully, like she’s still rolling it over in her head, like it’s still no more than half a hunch. “It seems so eighties / or early nineties / to […]

Pitchfork review the new Tricky EP. Key sentence which makes me distrust this piece (talking about Juxtapose): “While probably worthwhile record for those that prefer Tricky’s hip-hop material, it seemed largely inessential for a fan of h[…]

It’s back-slappin’ time!: Alistair Fitchett chucks some complements my way and makes me blush, though as he guesses my pop culture knowledge is sometimes at the expense of other parts of my cultural life: I sure as hell wish I read as man[…]

The hottest music writing in the world right now is not on the web, it’s in the music section of the Village Voice, which under (I believe) the editorship of Chuck Eddy has become the place where the wittiest, cleverest and most-up-to-date rock[…]

Bowery Electric’s “Freedom Fighter” is bewitching and worrying, and not just because it was made by a band I’d put down as America’s most useless. In fact the beat Bowery Electric use on “Freedom Fighter” sou[…]