Eric Clapton – most over-rated guitarist in poll shockah! The shocker here actually is not that EC (some call him God, but this is a dwindling number now due to age and events which pretty much prove this not to be true) is seen as being over-r[…]

angry robot: music review weblog with an electronic emphasis. Looks good.[…]

Tim F says some interesting things here about production in pop, and the way R&B and pop advocates concentrate on it. Somewhere on ILM there’s a thread from a year or so ago where I started questioning the sound-focus of pop writing (and t[…]

DressKylie. Not only does this not start with a naked Kylie, or even a real Kylie – it’s a drawing – but the choice of costumes seemto think she has only been around for the last two years. With of course the highlight exception of […]

DUEL! 2002 — Round 2 Match 2

Duel 2002! – Round 2 Match 2

Which Of These Bands Is Worse?

Nickelback

The Stereophonics

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What can we say? This is the Duel! readers have surely bee[…]

Speaking of the “new rock”, there’s some interesting chit-chat going on at the OHJ blog (start with Scott Plagenhoef’s post about halfway down and then work up) about whether having the Strokehivestripes in the charts is a goo[…]

THE WILDBUNCH – “Danger! High Voltage!”
I think they think they’re joking, but they’re not. Maybe when they recorded the track – “Hey! Guys! Let’s do a disco song!” “A disco song?” &#8[…]

102 Beats That: things get somewhat more left-field in part 2 of this six-part feature.[…]

Former Take That star DJing in Skegness: cor look how the mighty have fallen etc. (It’s Howard, to save your finger energy). This of course is another reason why POP IS BEST – once its used up and worn out its stars it packs them off to u[…]

102 Beats That – finally gets going! Thanks for your patience on this one. The first 12 entries are now up, with 6 or so to follow every day I get a chance until all 72 are online. We hope you enjoy it.[…]