“Producing…”
After failing to speak to the man while on special assignment in Davis, Sacramento and San Francisco, Dutch journalist Sander Kerkhof finally caught up with DJ Shadow for an interview over the phone, resulting in a hal[…]

PAUL MCCARTNEY – “From a Lover to a Friend”
ELTON JOHN – “This Train Don’t Stop There Any More”
“Hey there.”
“Hello. How’ve you been?”
“Ehh. It’s been a tough year.[…]

When I saw Beat Street and Breakin, age 10, in Knoxville Tennessee, there was a context in the movies of a repressed liberation politics. That context may always float around movies, as an eddy in Hollywood’s vague cloud of humanism, but for a […]

Pitchfork Inna (Very Confused) Dancehall Stylee. First things first: Mo Wax’s Now Thing comp. (another timely Pitchfork review) is dub only in the most tangential sense: that it features (mostly) instrumental “versions” of ragga da[…]

Vive La France: Pete and I are off on holiday for a week, hooray! That means we won’t be round here, and it means no Freaky Trigger updates. Unfortunately I am leaving without answering a load of e-mails because my connection’s been down […]

A hip-hop version of The Weakest Link??? What’s next, R&B Celebrity Squares? Except whole new rapping concept albums about how Da Brat should have known the capital of Australia and B-Real’s disgruntlement at being voted off in the t[…]

G-g-g-gareth G-g-g-gates’s website, to all of you WILL HATAS/lunys/nappy wetters: www.ggates.co.uk. Even his WEBSITE is having a laugh at him! (This was pointed out to me via popbitch). I’ve got fcuking Unchained Melody in my head now.[…]

COURTNEY, COURTNEY, COURTNEY: Three articles from the NME website. So much to say, but there’s just not enough time in the day / week / lunar cycle. And now I hear her voice in my head, saying all these stupid stupid things. Calgon, take me[…]

Destiny’s Child — Nasty Girl
Up until now, they have managed to surprise me with every single and – sorry Popistas! – for a popact that’s a whole lot. But the forced demeanor of this particular gem just can’t seem […]

Okay – so the flute thing didn’t pan out (flute – pan – geddit?). Perhaps the big chart sound for the next couple of mintyhs might be the carnival sound. This is not strictly latin or soca, just anything vibrant, strident and […]