“The Seventies Were The Coolest Decade Ever….Because Of All My Mates!” – it’s Victor Bockris talking about the 1970s as the nexus of all good things in post-war American culture, actually quite interestingly. Possibly he[…]

The Vocoder Revival, drawing the comparison – obvious but one which had passed me by – between the fact that Vocoders are all over 00s pop like measles and the 1970s wah-wah boom. A thought occurs to me: possibly the Vocoder plague is a s[…]

Rock dinosaurs eh? This is a most amusing piece regarding the naming of a dinosaur after 80’s legend and noughties binman (probably) Mark Knopfler. Rightly so, the BBC have used as many cliches as possible in their reporting of it. Nevertheles[…]

POP-EYE 21/1/2001
Of course Limp Bizkit don’t matter. Fifteen-year-old boys like what fifteen-year-old boys always have and always will: shouting plus snot plus noise. Some of the best music ever has been made that way and some of the worst has[…]

No Rock & Roll Fun is another of those pesky music weblogs. I like this one because it is rude about music and quite funny with it.[…]

Interview with Oxide And Neutrino by one of the Hyperdub people. Not desperately articulate but definitely passionate and they touch on some of the stuff Tim’s been talking about in his garage coverage here.[…]

(More Single Review re-runs from FT’s dark ages: this one’s for Maura)
L’TRIMM – “Cars With The Boom”
I’ve dreamed about getting hold of this ever since I first read Chuck Eddy’s magnificent Accidental […]

Empty exercises in formalism are the lifeblood of rock criticism (see 1000) and hence I am delighted that Nick Mirov of monosyllabic has turned his webthing over to an alphabetical rundown of all the albums he heard in 2000. Good reviews, too.[…]

How To Be A Feisty Rock Critic (via Bleeding Ears). So sad, so true. Spot the bits where I cringed.[…]

Maura reviews some singles over at her site. Good writing: about 60% right, too. Go L’Trimm! (she also isolates the appeal of the increasingly irritating Queens Of The Stone Age: nostalgia-rock for ex-grungers feeling the first-time bite of the[…]