Am I Cool Or Not?: pitifully few responses to this once-popular feature. Are you all just sick of it? The new one will be up tomorrow evening – for now, send in your guesses![…]

I now understand exactly what all of the people who’ve been bemoaning lowest common denominator trance music have been complaining about. Despite the “hook” of being a trance reinterpretation of an operatic aria, absolutely nothing […]

Everyone’s written a love song ‘ silly, serious, heart-felt, ironic, and all the various permutations throbbing and convulsing therein. Often, the best ones try to reconcile these conflicting traits ‘ for instance, Elvis Costello&#[…]

I hereby declare June 26, 2001 Sugababes Day. Their debut record (One Touch) was released in the US. Their song “Overload” (a blissfully atypical pre-fab pop track, which means it’s damn good – never mind Tom’s grousin[…]

Aint No Party Like A Sussed Club Party: like plucky kids in a Children’s Film Foundation epic, last Thursday saw DJs Cabbage, Carsmile and Cockfarmer take to the half-working decks in a flooded nightclub and entertain hordes of partygoers in tr[…]

Charlotte Raven today: “[The British are] committed to making stuff happen in the short time they’ve got. We’ve got a genius for compression. That’s why we’re so good at pop songs.” Hmmm.[…]

STOOGES – “REAL COOL TIME”
adapted for the stage, a play in one act.
dramatis personae:
me – me.
her – her.
setting:
suburban bedroom(s), 1969.
[a telephone rings. a telephone is answered.]
her: “hello?”
me: […]

Tiny Mix Tapes Gone to Heaven: is a music weblog. May be too indie for some of you, but good luck to it – the more the merrier![…]

THE BYRDS – “We’ll Meet Again”
Here’s the great thing about The Byrds when they started: they’d hit upon a pop sound so vital and viral that every song on their first album could sound the same and you knew they so[…]

MusicJournalist.com: it’s a site for music journalists. Not being one, I don’t know how useful they might find it. Heh.[…]