DON’T LET ME FUCK UP, WILL YOU?
Freak Scene was apparently named after someone saw J Mascis and said ?I?ve just seen a freak?. Spelling was never the beating heart of the grunge seen – I mean scene. Not that Dinosaur Jr were grunge of cou[…]

POP-EYE 14/1/01
I get all the best weeks. Tom has to grope around trying to write interesting things about Rui Da Silva – a known impossibility – whilst I get the pop charts version of an extremely rare astral conjunction. In this case it[…]

Renovation: I have updated the links list and kicked off a few of the ones which are either defunct or retired or I really never go to. I have also – a large but actually quite pointless if you look at my stats page task – updated the arc[…]

The Avalanches – Since I Left You
It’s summer in Melbourne, and stinking hot. I take solace where I can find it: stealing my sister’s fan any time I can, sculling bottles of juice at three in the morning, and listening to The Avalan[…]

Tim told me that The Avalanches had made his favourite record of the year. So I asked him to review it. And here we are.[…]

Another Monday, another Am I Cool Or Not?: who is this young man and more importantly what is he into? Plus ‘keyboard girl’ assessed. As usual, thankyou to everyone who wrote in last week and you are all encouraged to give it a go this ti[…]

It is rare in the slovenly world of online music criticism for a site to redesign, so I don’t get to do my bloggin’ duty and mention it that often. However indie rock lynchpin us|against|them has not only redesigned but it is – and […]

NIRVANA – Tedious Rubbish
Fact One: The track Endless Nameless is called Endless Nameless. It therefore has a name.
Fact Two: The track Endless Nameless fits on one CD. CD?s hold a maximum of 78 minutes of music. Therefore the track is at most […]

SHARK WILSON AND THE BASEMENT HEATERS – “Make It Reggae”
“Whatever I play, it’s gonna be reggae” says Shark, so his band naturally put down a tough, springy funk groove. Or funk-reggae or funk in the process of mut[…]

Sobs, Static And Sweat: superb review of the new Jay-Z and Wu-Tang albums from the Village Voice.[…]