Twenty Underappreciated Bands Of The Nineties: Disco Inferno! Yeah! Loads of indie pony! Um….(thanks to Vaughan for the link).[…]

Jiffysquid and Simulare are new – well, new to me – music blogs turned up by Kathleen a little while back. Styles: Jiffysquid is pleasingly big-print and is also pro-indie rock, though not as single-minded on that front as some. It’[…]

Simon Reynolds picks his dance albums of the year: a tempting list, I have to say. What I find interesting are the hybrids he’s identifying between IDM and gabba, and IDM and booty bass – I’m personally having plenty of fun explorin[…]

As well as a regulation-issue news service (“win TONS of prizes” etc.), online music site Vitaminic runs a weblog. And it’s a very good one. It doesn’t have its own site, piggybacking on the general Vitaminic news one, so you&[…]

Being a sad Mojo-reading dadrock-loving sort, I can follow up this post with mention of the notorious Moby Grape singles scam, where said band released five singles on one day, each with a different A-Side and B-Side taken from their forthcoming debu[…]

The Manic Street Preachers (ahem) have announced the release of not one but two new singles on the same day. The idea of the two singles is to show the depth, nay breadth of the music on their new album. So that’ll be a slow one and a fast one […]

Another Best Of 2000 List: a.m.a. veteran and mailing list pal Kris S. provides a heavily annotated best-of for an end of year poll I’m running on said list. I like it so much I ask to run it on the site. So here it is![…]

Jamie Oliver lookalike? And isn’t that Lee doing a solo bit?[…]

POP EYE 7/1/2001
Right you fuckers listen up. It’s January. Outside it is cold. I am forced to wear a coat which makes me look like a 1982 Echo And The Bunnymen fan. The potential indignity of falling plum on my arse is near-constant. British w[…]

The dog ate it: I had a whole list of links to give you and forgot to e-mail it from work. The one that won’t wait is this defence of Eminem, which gets it exactly right as far as I’m concerned (though is a bit mean on poor old Britney). […]