Lennon tributes from a variety of mostly self-serving Celebs (Sheryl Crow has clearly been faxing the same winsome copy round all the broadsheets, f’r example). Do you want mine? It’s here (today only, then it’s in the archive, ha!)[…]

The Ten Best Hip-Hop Remixes: not actually much to be said about this other than that it’s interesting and mouthwatering. Always nice to find good hip-hop articles, too.[…]

Bye Bye Select: Select has, of course, been crap for years. But I know that for a few of the people reading this it was something of a bible during its early-90s heyday, with endless articles about how great Julian Cope was, genuinely witty features,[…]

I think that with the Madonna / producer farago below,my original thesis has been more or less proved. That being able to name the producer of Justify My Love cold on a live radio quiz (“this was not a phone in if you know the answer” job[…]

Firstly Ally, my apologies. I had assumed that Lenny co-wrote “Justify My Love” but that Shep had produced it. Actually that explains the use of the breakbeat (the same one as on My Bloody Valentine’s “Instrumental” &#82[…]

I don’t know how I missed it earlier, but I’ve decided it’s high time to clear up a misconception placed on this very webpage on November 27th. I normally wouldn’t care, except that this misconception has run so rampant around[…]

Condolences to the Kempa family: chriskempa.com. This would be why our beloved kempa.com is down.[…]

Where is Pop-Eye? I hear you sob. Well, ah, the thing is….I didn’t listen to the charts this week. And there’s not really that much to say about “Independent Women (Part 1)”. It’s a good record, I’m pleased t[…]

Like Life Without Buildings, this is on Tugboat Records, who make their CDs lovely, with fold-over waxy cardboard sleeves. There’s a strict two-tracker policy going on, so I’d guess the aesthetic is to get CD singles as beautiful and cont[…]

Good packaging is so important, and Life Without Buildings records look supercool, really hard post-punk fonts at angles, light green and off-white on stark black background, minimal information but not making a point of it. They look like they could[…]