usounds is back in operation. Look, kids, MP3s![…]

Radiohead: Kid A: Pitchfork Review: You might like the album. But you won’t like this. Has Brent DiCrescenzo never heard an art-rock record before? Good to see it’s not just Freaky Trigger playing pre-release link slut, though.[…]

Spinning records: frothy Salon piece on Bush and Gore’s use of pop music in their campaigns, included mostly because it’s the first substantial music article Salon have run all week, and it’s in the Politics section! Salon’s A[…]

We know what you played this summer: assorted pop stars and other musical bods pick their favourite tunes (and choons) of the Summer. Daphne And Celeste have the best taste.[…]

Kid A: “Dear Sir, please cancel my subscription to Freaky Trigger forthwith. First you review Stephin Merritt’s new record unfavourably and now you give a lukewarm but reasonably charitable review to an album by Radiohead??? What is your […]

Western Homes returns (sort of).[…]

The Magnetic Fields at missprint.org: here are photos of the MF gig I went to, seeing as I dont have time for anything more discursive today, plus everything is going crazy ape outside with a fuel blockade. Anyway, this comes from Starry Vs The Baddi[…]

Go-Betweens: The Friends of Rachel Worth: Pitchfork Review: and another review, from Meg Zamula, one of Pitchfork’s unsung but consistently good new writers. She even passes the Cobain/Verlaine test.[…]

Promo Napster Horror: “when records begin to show up a month ahead of their release dates, entire marketing campaigns can be thrown off track”. Gasp! Sob! The article (found via Josh Blog) also suggests that the Radiohead album has found […]

MC Hawking’s Crib: kind of amusing.[…]