Freaky Trigger sexier than Pitckfork shocker. Not that we’ve got any photographic evidence to back this up (Fred’s notorious pictures aside), but hey, we had two genders at our pub meet.[…]

Diamanda Galas reviews a bunch of singles – a million times more entertaining than the notion of D.G. reviewing a bunch of singles suggests. I’d seen Galas doing the Invisible Jukebox thing in The Wire and while entertaining she was very […]

Tangents talking about the Magnetic Fields gig I went to last week. Shame forces me to admit that it was most probably my friend Pete who Mr.Fitchett heard compare the Magnetic Fields to Neil Hannon, since we were sitting next to the Tangents guru. I[…]

Serfs and toffs… – a Finn’s-eye view of English popular culture. Hard to decipher, but the promised book might well be fascinating.[…]

WOOKIE – “Battle”
UK garagistes are the philosopher-kings of British dance, skewering the Top 10 with wordy musings on struggle, individuality, and the pursuit of the Good. Y Tribe’s gorgeous and gracious “Enough Is Enou[…]

The Project Dark Singles Club Catalogue: speaking of non-standard records, here we have 7″ singles made out of glass, hair, biscuit and ice, among other things.[…]

Perfect Sound Forever’s rockcriticguide – but where oh where are the pop dollies and self-conscious dilettantes? Needs a sequel, I think. (via Kathleen, whose URL I could probably type in my sleep by now, and who is less than enamoured of[…]

Joe Sixpack’s SLIPCUE: also found via Scrubbles (who rocks for it), this excellent site documenting the various enthusiasms of a world music, Brazilian, ‘hick music’, French pop, rock writing and indiepop fan. If the attitude-laden […]

The Internet Museum of Flexi / Cardboard / Oddity Records: metal records, paper records, make-your-own records…..this is beautiful. In our MP3-driven times a little full-on FETISHISM is always welcome. (via Scrubbles).[…]

Guardian columnist Charlotte Raven talks about Oasis. The most comment-worthy thing about Oasis now is why intelligent people like Raven seem to fret so much over their decline. It’s hard to fault her crisply written arguments, but hasn’t[…]