(also don’t forget the requisite “boys boys boys plus obligatory sleater-kinney mention to prove that we’re ‘down with the chicks’” stance.)[…]

THE ADVENT CALENDAR OF FILTH
4: WINGS – Wonderful Christmastime
The Beatles never made a Christmas single. Unless you include those fanclub flexi’s where John Lennon does his amusing John Lennon voice and tells jokes you would only allow […]

You’llhave seen this already, probably, Pitchfork’s Top 20 of 2000. Top 20 what? Albums, obviously. Radiohead come top – sorry to spoil the surprise and all.
Actually the ‘head album is the one on this rundown which comes clos[…]

CINDERELLA – “don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone”
an argument that performance>composition:
this near-midler piano ballad perverted by tom keifer’s wounded-beast rasp. purring and whining sympathetically[…]

CB Savage, courtesy of Starry, who recommended it highly in the pub and was most certainly right to. Listen and wonder.[…]

Another week, another Am I Cool Or Not? – see how wrong you all were last time! Then try your qualitative skills on this week’s guinea pig.[…]

The best thing I ever seen Eminem do, since we have spoken of him lots in recent days, came this weekend. It was so bizarrely fascinating that I feel the need to let you all in on it. We were watching MTV, which had a show on basically accusing Britn[…]

There are crudely two ways of marketing a Christmas single. That’s because crudely (and these are Christmas singles so sophistication is right out of the window) there are two types of Yuletide tune. There is the gung-ho, sleigh-bell a-jangling[…]

Loads of new stuff up on Simon Reynolds’ site. And oh, check out the links page.[…]

Ridiculously OTT review of “Stan” from the NME. But It’s odd, actually, because we were down the pub last night talking about Bill Hicks and we all agreed that he was quite good but a bit of a sacred cow. That said he’s clearl[…]