100 Top 70s Punk LPs: have I blogged this before? I honestly can’t remember. Anyway, I’m in a punky mood today and this gave me ten minutes solid nostalgic entertainment.[…]

The Official Daphne and Celeste Hate Site: it’s a ‘conspiricy’, apparently. The irony being of course that this site is much more in the spirit of D & C than any of my jaded musings here are ever likely to be.[…]

Bob Stanley at home – the Saint Etienne songwriter gives you a tour of his record collection, which is exactly as you’d expect Bob Stanley’s record collection to be.“[Chantal Goya] did a great soundtrack to a Jean-Luc Godard f[…]

The dark secret of the Italian Futurists: no, not the fascism thing which is hardly a secret, more that they were – at least from a musical point of view – a bit crap. For all that Russolo’s intonarumori are a cultural touchstone of[…]

GOLDFRAPP – “Lovely Head”
A duet for theremin and heartache: at least that’s what it sounds like. Goldfrapp make a cool, nervy noise – you mught draw torchy parallels with Portishead, but this is much nearer Broadcast, o[…]

And the point of novelty songs is…?: Anyone who is currently living in New York will know what I’m talking about, but for those of you who don’t, let’s give you an appraisal of the situation: Z100, the big pop station in the c[…]

Well, someone out there still cares about Ricky: The video for “She Bangs,” where he plays Super Underwater Heterosexual Man, knocked “Shape of My Heart” out of the number one spot on TRL yesterday. Whether that “someone[…]

POP-EYE U.S. – 10/26/00
and here, we find, is the fundamental problem about writing about the u.s. pop charts. once again, the top five remains solidified, with christina aguilera on top for a fourth week with “come on over baby.” &[…]

Liking a song more when you hear its history. I’m more than anti this idea, but having heard a heart-aching song this morning on my travels, and then hearing its even more heart-rending story makes me want to at least discuss the subject. Its t[…]

TWAS 300: A Belated Introduction: Glenn McDonald tells us why.[…]