Adventures in Sound: very interesting looking music zine with articles and reviews ranging from Burt Bacharach to Z’Ev. I say “looking” because I don’t have time right now to give it the full checking-out it deserves. Maybe yo[…]

JOHNNY CASH – “I See A Darkness”
THE HANDSOME FAMILY – “The Dutchboy”
You might hardly notice the most important difference between Will Oldham’s reading of his “I See A Darkness” and Johnny Cash&[…]

Outkast: Stankonia – heeeeeeeeeeeere’s Robin, getting excited about the new Outkast album, something I really ought to hear myself.[…]

It’s Tricky! He’s a mentalist!: interview with Mr. Thaws which contains much scary ranting, a few sensible bits, and one useful nugget of information, to wit that “Divine Comedy”, his most vicious 90s record, is seeing ‘[…]

A tale of two rock critics: this is a good one. On the one hand you have Cameron Crowe, he of first rock-crit film biopic fame and youngest-staffer on Rolling Stone notoriety, telling the world about how absolutely cool it was to be hangin’ wit[…]

Friday, 20th October, 18:00
“I have no interest in the new single by Daft Punk.”
Saturday, 21st October, 18:00
“Well, I was wrong.”
The moment comes just over two minutes in.
“One More Time” kicks off as typical Da[…]

PULP – “The Night That Minnie Tymperly Died” (live MP3)
Jarvis Cocker’s songs spell out patterns of behaviour, return time and again to themes which streak through his writing like mold in cheese. Latterly, exhaustion and rede[…]

Is he hot or not?[…]

Julie London, RIP[…]

The mark of a good review is that it forces me to read to the end even when I have no wish whatsoever to hear the album. For example: motion’s review of Photek’s Solaris – balanced, intriguing, finely written. Motion, in fact, are r[…]