DUEL! – ROUND 2: today it’s Moby vs Weller.
And yes, the archives are on the right. Sorry.[…]

Motown A&R, sometime in 1978.
Stevie: Hi, Bob. I’ve finally come up with an idea for all-important follow up to my Grammy Award-winning, critically acclaimed, #1 hit album, Songs in the Key of Life.
A&R: Stevie, that’s great! Let&[…]

Skratch Piklz to retire: “Yogafrog said he and colleagues Qbert, D-Styles and new member DJ Flare will train with an unnamed musician whom they describe as someone who “shared with us the most beautiful way to express scratching.”&#[…]

DUEL! – ROUND 2: Eels vs Skunk Anansie. Skunk A. have to be favourites, but come on, Eels are really, really bad.[…]

Black Box Recorder vs Half Man Half Biscuit: not a Duel, but a new FT article from MJ Hibbett, including some great stuff on music and humour.[…]

PopJustice: Will I never tire of linking to PopJustice? Not until they go shit, and that’s not happened yet. Another week, another laugh.[…]

This is my life, and this is how it reads…: I have no idea whether April’s pita is always this music-centric but it seems to be at the moment. Music weblogs go! And yes, the Smiths are better than B & S, duh.[…]

Cliff Richard. An easy target, you say? Why yes! But in the Great War, when a plucky Tommy dragged himself across the hell of No-Man’s-Land to the German lines, and there saw a machine-gunner having a quick fag, do you think he said to himself,[…]

Dancing About Architecture is back with a modest proposal to bin rock star interviews once and for all (but why are they pickin’ on poor Britney, OUR FUTURE QUEEN? The cads.) They miss the main reason not to bother interviewing rock stars: the […]

What’s My Muthafuckin’ Name? “I once interviewed Mos Def, as enlightened as an MC as you could hope for, and the most excited he got was when he was talking about ultratrashy album covers used by Master P’s dire No Limits labe[…]