Chicks Dig Hip Hop: exactly what it says it is – a weblog, by women, devoted to hip-hop. And go into the archives for some of the liveliest blogvoices commentary I’ve seen. Why are there so few webogs about hip-hop, hmm?[…]

The Best Barmaid In London? Possibly. Now everyone knows that Pumpkin Pubs has a strange predilictation for The Rising Sun on Tottenham Court Road – usually known as The Riser. Strange because these days there really is little special about the[…]

Oxford Calling, Oxford Calling….this is just to say that the Pumpkin Publog is back to its former Blogspot glory, now the whole server problem seems to be under control. We would have contributed, of course, but we had no guarantee that any mon[…]

And the second must-click link this evening is this review of Almost Famous by Richard Meltzer. Meltzer uses it as an opportunity for a massive personal onslaught on Danny sugerman and another forgotten 70s teenaged rock writer: it’s bitter and[…]

Must we fling this filth at our pop kids?: where’s Bill Grundy when you need him?[…]

Of course if you do want to see what my favourite rockmags are you could always look here.[…]

So when does Everett True think was the golden age of Melody Maker? Surely not when he was writing a load of grunge-rock pieces for the paper? Still, the more dewy-eyed reminiscences about “the Maker” the better – it gets it out of […]

“We all know pop music sucks in the year 2000”, or according to this site we do. So why am I pointing to this primitive rubbish? Well, jack up your speakers and you too will understand. What in Kurt’s name were they thinking?[…]

The first must-visit link of the evening is the welcome return of the legendary Radio On. Radio On as a fanzine and as a hushed whisper on the rockcrit grapevine (cause obviously it wasn’t a fanzine anyone in Britain knew about) was the direct […]

Well here’s another live publog from “Sosho”. John, Magnus and Kate are on the tiles, mopping up a few wannabe haunts. And so we find ourselves strangely drawn to the prospect of revealing our innermost drinking thoughts in a sty[…]