D12 (with Eminem) — “Purple Hills” / “Purple Pills”
HAWD GANKSTUH RAPPHUS MC’S (WIT GATZ) — “Reptile Haus”
The first time I heard ‘Purple Hills’ (thank you again, MuchMusic), it was a […]

POP:ART fun — the latest FT update is an interview with Dickon Edwards, former Shelley and Orlando pop mastermind currently enjoying himself with Fosca. Stop on by![…]

PUFFY AMIYUMI – “Boogie Woogie No. 5”
Two young Japanese girls, stumbling around a stark white film set in torn jeans and sneakers (among many other outfits), with boys dancing around them in khakis, and a pale imitation of a Gene K[…]

A guest entry here from regular FT reader and past Focus Group participant Job de Wit, with his translated review that will appear in the Netherlands’ OOR magazine shortly:
AALIYAH — Aaliyah
The futuristic pop that R&B is today found[…]

Ordinarily I would post the Club Sussed playlist…but I was having too much fun to remember what I spun. Big shout outs to DJs Carsmile, Crow Atak and Constant Spray, see you on the 19th.
I am going on holiday, meanwhile – sorry about the […]

NB: You might have noticed a lack of Moments In Love updates lately. This is annoying but it’s not because I’ve got bored of the feature already – quite the contrary, I’m really excited about it. I’ve just been trapped d[…]

America’s Best Rock Band: according to Greil Marcus, it’s Sleater-Kinney. Now reading this article you might be struck by how irrelevant the opening paragraph is – about S-K meeting the Backstreet Boys and them not knowing who S-K w[…]

My Indie Life: five old pieces find their way into the FT archives, to make up for my being too busy to produce a new bit of writing this week (don’t worry – Ned has a few goodies lined up for an update towards the end of the week). They […]

Am I Cool Or Not?: sorry, dude.
Now, a new pic awaits you all. But here we come to a delicate matter which I had best address directly: I need pictures of women. The submissions pile for AICON is running low – if you’re reading this and y[…]

Resonant Frequency: Pitchfork have a habit of announcing ‘regular columns’ which last one instalment. Let’s hope this, from ILM regular and P-fork savant Mark Richard-San, bucks the trend – a thoughtful ramble down some intere[…]