VAN DYKE PARKS – Song Cycle
I’d heard so much about this album that I was actually nervous about hearing it, some years after it acquired a personal status as a kind of masterpiece of the mind. And the thing that immediately strikes me a[…]

Stop Making Sense: a short review of the Talking Heads’ film-soundtrack ‘classic’. Not sure if it works, but see what you think. Oh! And I’ve redesigned Freaky Trigger a bit, too.[…]

Ironminds: The Price is Wrong: Good grief! Mike was right and this is a really good article in Ironminds. I’ve very little to add, really – it’s a thoughtful piece on collector overpricing, and the implications of eBay and Napster f[…]

THE GO-BETWEENS – “Going Blind”
The Go-Betweens set the gold standard for sensitivity coupled with intelligence coupled with fearsomely good tunes, and in doing so I’m sure ruined many a young life: out in the real world there[…]

It’s been a while since I linked to Dancing About Architecture, which is odd since they’ve been on somewhat of a roll recently, and this week sees editor Rob Brookman write a handy one-page primer on African pop music. Other people might […]

diskant: fantastic fanzines reviewed: even though I never got round to doing one in print (too messy on the fingers, my dears), I’ve got a vast soft spot for fanzines. I’ve no idea how old these reviews are, so some of the addresses may b[…]

The 100 Best Singles of the 1980s: it’s the sincerest form of flattery, and I am sincerely flattered – Robin Carmody, sick of my constant failed promises of an 80s singles list (does anyone really need to know what I think about Frankie G[…]

It’s a Saturday, nobody’s reading, what better time for some serious navel-gazing?
The Freaky Trigger Readership Survey: Results
First of all thankyou to anyone who voted in this. The results, admittedly on a self-selecting sample, were h[…]

SINK: since Mike has stumbled upon it I suppose this particular cat can be debagged. Sink is a weblog by Tim Hopkins, the drinking man’s music fan, which exists as a forum for him to disagree with all the music zines he reads. It’s honest[…]

Liner Notes Of The Gods…Again!: the nonsense keeps on coming, care of Kerplink.[…]