WHY ARE THERE SO MANY MEMBERS OF LAMBCHOP?
In a recent piece I discussed those stupid bands which have more members than revenue – or in the case of My Life Story more members than actual fans. What completely slipped my mind was the strange ca[…]

Suggestion that while British pop might be good, but British popstars are rubbish. Play (a lousy name for an album = a lousy name for a band) a Swedish girl group will be attempting to crack America with covers of great British pop songs of the last […]

HANDSOME FAMILY- Have you Been Washed in The Blood of the Lamb
Old School Protestant Hymns are way more hardcore then Ozzy. Look at this one, running into seven minutes of verses, each with the chorus that starts with the line “have you been wa[…]

CHRISTINA AGUILERA – “Soar”
Okay, yes, it’s a cheesy motivational ballad. Anyone with a strong reaction to the Dianne Warren school of songwriting should just check out right now because I could type for several years and not[…]

Tom’s Top Twelve!
Lizard power! Slight change of format as instead of just a list I’ll make a stab at mentioning when and why these tracks struck me this week. New stuff first – Mad Anju‘s “Cellular Minutes” is sur[…]

My review of Live Forever, now up on Freaky Trigger – as is Mark Pitlyk’s impressionistic Boards Of Canada piece and – finally – Anthony’s piece on Morrissey and his Latino fanbase. More new content later this week, incl[…]

Foxes And Hedgehogs; or; What’s The Dilly? — Simon Reynolds talks about my end-of-year stuff on his weblog, and in turn that spawns a great big ILM Thread, and what do I say? ‘Wow’, mostly.
Well, OK, I can be a bit more articu[…]

It’s ‘Visions of Johanna’ rewrit for Branson happy-hour tagteam karaoke, innit? Kid’s ‘I can’t look at you while I’m lyin’ next to her’ makes ‘her’ the unfortunate Louise to Sheryl&#82[…]

I can’t promise anything for Paris or Munich residents but if you’re in or around New York or London then the 21st March 2003 holds a great party opportunity for you! In New York you’ll be helping a good cause – Doctors Withou[…]

As should be fairly obvious from the lack of Freaky Trigger activity recently, I’m finding it harder and harder to keep my editorial head above water – so pieces are running late, themes are dying off, projects getting delayed or abandone[…]