On Fame and Misfortune: Blowing It, Channel 4, Sat Feb 16 2002, the tale was retold of Naomi Campbell going naked to ban fur, then stalking down a cat-walk in nothing but. Cue outraged PETA spokesgirl: “How you be crying at the anal electrocuti[…]

Emergency Ward
Art‘s “Ugly People with Fancy Hairdos”–just the intro, please, none of that “we’re all boat people” stuff–is one of the most vicious songs I’ve ever heard, a sneering indictment of […]

102 Beats That
Freaky Trigger – remarkably – is three in March. I’d like to do something to commemmorate that, and here’s what I’ve come up with.
What is FT all about? Records, mostly. Not just the records themselves &#8[…]

The kids are alright. They certainly want their disco if this story is anything to go by. Fridays in Edinburgh the schools finish at lunchtime, so there are gatherings of the tribes across the south side of town. Nu metal kids and goths are hanging a[…]

More proof that this woman knows exactly what she’s doing…
I’d like to see Miss Crossroads sell her own line of underpants (even if those underpants seem very tenuously related to her person.)
(On second thought, ew, no I wouldn&#82[…]

Kerrang topples NME as best selling music weekly. Not that we are swamped by music weeklies these days – and at closer inspection this is not a story looking at the collapse of the weekly. The NME has stayed solid, Kerrang has put on a massive […]

I know Pazz and Jop’s so Wednesday but I just wanted to clarify the comments attributed below: It’s not that comfort itself is a bad thing—if it was, “One Touch” would have been left out of my top 10 in favor of that aggr[…]

Now call me bemused, but if the judge isn’t quite sure who has won a case, then who on earth is supposed to? Here is the reason why we will never see bootlegs getting official releases: Robbie Williams in Woodie Guthrie legal wrangle (via Loudo[…]

The Strokes Special Part II (and yes, that is it): articles on the Strokes from Nitsuh (talking about the band’s eighties connection), Stevie T (on why he doesn’t like the band), and Ned (on why Julian and the lads don’t cut it as a[…]

“Music, it is the universal language”
Oh, right. So that’s why in Star Trek all the alien races speak “music” then. Why do we speak English or French or Chinese when we could all be happily burbling along in the Esperant[…]