American Psycho, or rather its soundtrack, talked about by me as part of Freaky Trigger’s long-delayed film issue. But it’s here now and I hope you enjoy it.[…]

Also from the FT mailbag, the electro-funk-dance-noise-sitars outfit Sound Storm have got in touch again (after a very nice humanclick chat the other week) to ask me to publish details of their forthcoming gig, on this Wednesday (2nd August). So here[…]

From the Freaky Trigger mailbag:
Dear Sir or Madam,
A few days after Freddie Mercury died in November 1991, I wrote and recorded a song for him. It is now available for free at
http://www.mp3.com/HolgerB
I have received wonderful feedback from Queen […]

The rock’n’roll years: God help us, it’s a state of the pop nation article from The Observer. Sam Taylor’s contention is that you can tell something about the ‘national mood’ from the records people are buying. The[…]

The Top Sample Lists: I remember these rockin’ lists from my very early days on a.m.a. Ever wondered which films have been sampled from the most? Now you shall wonder no more. Unfortunately one of my long-time party-bore factoids, i.e. my claim[…]

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – New Age (from Loaded, 1970)
It was Mark E. Smith, of course it was, who came up with the ultimate indie rock snob put-down: “He couldn’t tell Lou Reed from Doug Yule“. Confession time: I was that cluel[…]

John Cale News is a neat and sharply designed site and does what it says in the title. Photos of Mr.Cale if that’s your thing. Right now I’m listening to Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol.1: Day Of Niagara, a first release on Table Of The El[…]

“Nick Hornby would never write a book about what’s on his hard drive” – Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, talking about the Napster thing. A more convincing argument for the MP3 revolution is tough to imagine, frankly.[…]

God Almighty, is there no end to it? The Official Worst Band In The World have some more material to foist upon us. Split up, yeah yeah. Actually the worst aspect of this story is Mr. Corgan’s prose style: give a pop star a keyboard and they th[…]

Empty.org — In Review is a writerly music/culture weblog which reminds me vaguely of the Josh Blog with more ‘attitude’. Two writers, haven’t read through it all yet but there’s a good sense of a dialogue going on, seems[…]