OH FOR GOD’S SAKE…
You go away for one weekend and this awaits you when you get back. No, no and a million times no, Sisqo’s “Thong Song” is NOT the best song of the year, you wretched bunch of perverts. He’s a rep[…]

Many people have mentioned to me over the last couple of weeks that some of my reasons for disliking particular strands of popular music are tenuous at best. I will accept this criticism on the chin, something Belle & Sebastian could never do. Wh[…]

So, why haven’t you been updating all day, Tom? Well, O Reader, that’s because I’ve been editing the The Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group, June 2000, the definitive overview of the first six months of Y2K in pop. It rules &#8211[…]

DUEL! – ROUND 2: the server is back and so is Duel! Stereophonics vs Kravitz – nasty.
Lack of promised updates because I’ve been a) a bit poorly, b) working on the focus group.[…]

Houston/Problem: I’m unable to update to the main Freaky Trigger site. While this provides me with a cast-iron excuse for not putting up all those articles and letters I’ve been promising, it is also ARSE in that it leaves three vital asp[…]

BEULAH – If We Can Land A Man On The Moon Then Why Can’t I Win Your Heart?
ESSEX GREEN – Primrose
These two are about as good as indiepop gets these days, which naturally means they have to overcome an overriding sense of cosiness,[…]

Step lively, space cadets! Horton Jupiter of the mighty They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them) e-mails me to say that his band are gigging on Tuesday 20th, at 10 PM, at The Clinic on Gerrard Street in Soho, London Town, England, UK. No information as […]

Musics: it’s the blog where the bourgeoisie meets the rebel. Um, no, it’s a blog with lots of links and commentary which I think Fred noticed a while back. It’s sterner and less personalised than most music blogs, but I’m sure[…]

DUEL! – ROUND 2: Muse take on Kid Rock. And now I’m off to bed.[…]

Alive and (Sky)Kicking. Tim’s back and he’s talking about Napster. “Napster technology bypasses that framework, allowing us to create intimate connections with unknown people in a series of exchanges that entirely disregards the fou[…]