And speaking of hooks….: Rolling Stone review the new Daft Punk album. Most entertaining is the journalist’s scrabbling for some kind of resistance or subversive content in “One More Time”.[…]

Maybe there’s hope for the kids after all: In a phone-in-and-vote “March Madness of Alternative Rock” weekend promotion sponsored by the modern rock station here in Philadelphia, Weezer came out triumphant. But the best part of that[…]

Suck weighs in on the resurgence of phoney Beatlemania, and while I dig the idea that this represents “an attempt by aging boomers to colonize the youth of their children, to make all who come after them replicate the boomers’ own sensibi[…]

Editorial Cartoons about Napster, an unsurprising number of which have roughly the same punch line: sullen, empimpled teen says “Oh no! Now I’ll have to go back to shoplifting!”[…]

Morning after the pub before discussion turns to the Virgin Ambient Series. I am shocked to discover that I own 9 of these albums, mostly as they used to turn up in clearance sales for three quid each. What were Virgin thinking?[…]

Just to get you in the mood for Daft Punk fever…: here are the sites of two more rule-shattering French artists.[…]

Keith Levene interview at PSF: Glad to see that he rates Yes so highly.[…]

For one week only (and to avoid it being put up on the day the new chart is released), Pop Eye returns to NYLPM. Firstly, apologies. Pop Eye is a bit late this week, mainly because Tom and I have been busy being angry at Charlotte Raven for misunders[…]

1981 vs 2000: Charlotte Raven’s hypotheses put to the test by FT scientists![…]

At least someone is admitting the RIAA is out of touch: A listing of the best songs of all time, as voted by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts, was released today, and the winner is…”Ove[…]