Gawd bless yer, Metafilter: the weblog community’s premiere discussion board discovers Tanya: much incomprehension ensues. As endearingly muddleheaded as MeFi always is.[…]

Three places remain for round one of the FT Fantasy Pop Charts game. The sooner they’re filled, the sooner we get back to links, ha.[…]

Oh yeah, it should also be said that if you’re planning to sign up for Amazing Pop Game (Hurry Hurry! Only 12 places left!), then don’t expect instructions or explanations until Pete and I have written them. It probably also helps if you […]

Do you want, O loyal readers, to take part in some kind of fantasy pop league game? Many have attempted this holy grail of interactive pop community content technology bleeding edge interface killer app, but all have been shite. Until now! We have in[…]

POP-EYE 14/1/01
I get all the best weeks. Tom has to grope around trying to write interesting things about Rui Da Silva – a known impossibility – whilst I get the pop charts version of an extremely rare astral conjunction. In this case it[…]

Renovation: I have updated the links list and kicked off a few of the ones which are either defunct or retired or I really never go to. I have also – a large but actually quite pointless if you look at my stats page task – updated the arc[…]

Tim told me that The Avalanches had made his favourite record of the year. So I asked him to review it. And here we are.[…]

Another Monday, another Am I Cool Or Not?: who is this young man and more importantly what is he into? Plus ‘keyboard girl’ assessed. As usual, thankyou to everyone who wrote in last week and you are all encouraged to give it a go this ti[…]

It is rare in the slovenly world of online music criticism for a site to redesign, so I don’t get to do my bloggin’ duty and mention it that often. However indie rock lynchpin us|against|them has not only redesigned but it is – and […]

SHARK WILSON AND THE BASEMENT HEATERS – “Make It Reggae”
“Whatever I play, it’s gonna be reggae” says Shark, so his band naturally put down a tough, springy funk groove. Or funk-reggae or funk in the process of mut[…]