No wait I take it all back!: “”Extending oneself beyond monosyllabic utterances is usually an indication one is more educated and learned,” said the researchers about analysing the average length of the words in each artist’s […]

Marcello is right: well, half-right. One of my biggest regrets last year was not finishing parts 2 and 3 of the ‘Death of Pop’ articles. The plan was to draw a line under the bullishly pro-pop attitudes we’d been espousing here, to […]

We do give a damn about our friends: intense excitement accompanies the new release of a split single by Clock Strikes Thirteen and The Clientele, covering one another’s songs. The Clientele are long-standing FT favourites of course, but for ad[…]

I want my ILM: if you’ve been having trouble getting onto ILM and ILE, this url might be more reliable for ILM (and this one for ILE.)[…]

Kylie can’t be arsed to be big in America. There is no story here of course, but I like the analogy where it appears that Kylie is using the old “Funny how the girls you fall in love with never fancy you, funny how the ones you don’[…]

Dave Popshots is right – this is very good. Captures nicely the mix of diffidence and enthusiasm you feel when you listen to records a lot, and asks some useful questions on the way.[…]

I Hate Alternative Rock: From the Makes No Sense At All Dept. – Bob Mould is coming out with THREE albums this year; check out this semi-informative article from Billboard.com for more information (and don’t mind the pop-up ads). A coup[…]

The Strokes Special finally launches with my review of the album and the debut of Al’s new cartoon strip (watch out for the huge jpeg). And thanks to Ethan for the graphic beautifying the front page. On Wednesday we’ve got a great thinkpi[…]

I KNEW IT WOULD BE WILL! I LOVE YOU WILL!!
Sadly, that shiny faced spiky haired fule Gates has already been signed in news which surely must shock the few of you just returned from your five year exploration of Moomin Valley. Please Gareth and your […]

Gareth Gates wins Pop Idol! Oh, no he didn’t. Much to everyone’s surprise, Will Young beat G-G-Gareth to the crown, in the final episode of the extremely protracted Pop Idol series. This means we can look forward to his rendition of the[…]