WEEZER – “Hash Pipe”
You want geeky? OK then. At one point in Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s The Ballad Of Halo Jones, the protagonist is exhausted. Her life is going nowhere, she’s fighting in a space war (this being, afte[…]

We’re whoring for BBC Online today – as the proof finally comes in that Napster and mp3’s are destroying the music industy. Oh, but the proof is that record sales have gone up. Ooops. Whilst record sales have been down for a while t[…]

You’ll be seeing this link in a few places: Pitchfork sluts for hits and gets Brent DiCrezcenzo to review Tool’s record. I’m linking to it because I think it’s funny (ha ha). My current despair at the very notion of ever writi[…]

Radiohead on for biggest chart hit: i.e. No.2, behind DJ Pied Piper whose single is called, perhaps aptly, “Do You Really Like It?” Good old BBC Online and their nose for a crucial entertainment story.[…]

LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS – “Why I Love Country Music”
“We feel fine / We’re killing time / Well what’s the crime?”
One of the first pieces of music criticism I remember reading was a cold dismissal of Ll[…]

A TOUCH OF CLASS – “Around the World”/LA MONTE YOUNG AND THE THEATRE OF ETERNAL MUSIC BRASS BAND – The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From the Four Dreams of China
The second on my walkman’s t[…]

NIRVANA – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”/PEARL JAM – “Even Flow”
Two tracks that together helped define the “Seattle sound.” What seems most striking now is that if they’d been released five years soo[…]

Elidor bows out (temporarily, we’re assured) with some of its best-ever pieces. An essay on the Skitz album, Countryman, which has been getting heavy and well-deserved net buzz; a review of Eve’s Scorpion doubling as frenzied personal wri[…]

Thousand: with another special mystery guest star![…]

Sonicnow asked for a link and a link they have got – indie-ish e-zine with interviews and features.
Other stuff – there’s still two-and-a-half hours to demand that NYLPM/me reviews a song for you. One track each please – for p[…]