Back At The RIAA: Sometime last week, I meant to subject you folks to some shameless self-promotion regarding an essay of mine (clicky clicky) published by those lovable, open-minded guys & gal at Pitchfork. (By the way, the phrase “six […]

Gloriously bizarre article from Stylus Magazine which starts from the premise that dance music journalism is marred by its obsessive reliance on football metaphors. Nowhere in the piece does the writer suggest how dance music should be written about,[…]

I wonder why the music industry had never thought of this before. If you don’t want people pirating Eminem then put out loads of bogus Eminem files on the web. It certainly comes under the definition of fighting fire with fire. Even better tha[…]

No More Moby!: Why on earth is he so popular?: A Slate writer seems to believe it is APE LAW that all music must rock, and with that, a promising anti-Moby rant turns to dog food.
OK, once more, with feeling — the antirockist position in a form[…]

Andrew WK: I Get Wet: Pitchfork Review: Remarkable write-up of the Andrew WK album from Ryan Schrieber, Pitchforkmedia’s editor-in-chief.

Remarkable because it gets Andrew WK’s music so descriptively right – “Nothing co[…]

Tom’s Top Ten!
THE RAPTURE – “House Of Jealous Lovers”
LIGHTNING SEEDS – “3 Lions (Osymyso Remix)”
NELLY – “Hot In Herre”
SPACE COWBOY – “I Would Die 4 U”
HAPPY MONDAYS &#8[…]

josh blog is back, you’ll be pleased to hear.[…]

I am always a but suspicious when I see stories like this: Beyonce Knowles warning kids not to become pop stars. This is not that dissimilar to the bitching Michael Jackson did about the music industry at the weekend, though Beyonce has decided not t[…]

PREEYA KALIDIS – “Shakalaka Baby”
This could and should have been a lot stronger. It’s the lead single from Bombay Dreams, the West End’s first ‘Bollywood musical’, with tunes provided by A R Rahman, the youn[…]

Some excerpts from my aborted notes to Mark Sinker’s epic “noise” essay (themselves a bastardization of an aborted essay on Lester Bangs/Richard Meltzer [just be thankful I left out the two paragraphs comparing Steve Albini to Dean […]