There’s a couple of new things at Tangents – an article on grammar pedants, and an interview with Fosca which admits from the outset it’s not that interesting, and I have to agree. But there’s also a front-page piece by Alasta[…]

Log On, Tune In, Drop Out: finally some interesting thoughts on the impact online music will have on how we listen to and socialise through music. Michelle Goldberg is gloomy – internet radio is solipsistic and unlikely to create a community, a[…]

The Freaky Trigger Readership Survey: it shouldn’t take more than five minutes and it’ll be really useful to me! Thanks.[…]

THELONIOUS MONK – “This is My Story, This is My Song” (from Straight, No Chaser)
When I read the name of the song on the CD in the store I’m not sure I really made the connection, but it hit me immediately, profoundly, once I […]

The UK Number Ones – and it is just that. A complete list, and the best I’ve seen. Nice little facts, links to band sites and the chance to look up what was number one at key points in your life. Captain Sensible was at number one when I […]

HARDchord.com – Top 40 Like a Bullet to the Head: is a new music site, which claims a “major aversion to radio-friendly music” but the best column in its first issue is about N’Sync, and the second-best mentions the Spice Girl[…]

Also in Mojo we learn that Frank Black has a new album, Dog in the Sand, on the way. So what? you may ask – but on this album Mr. Black has upped the production after years thrashing about in his faux-garage, and he’s also recruited one J[…]

Love’s anatomy: stop sniggering at the back, boy, it’s an interview with Stephin Merritt. Heard most of it before, but I gleaned a few more details about his musical: “It’s a successful invasion from Venus in the form of a pre[…]

Golden Oldies is a top article about rock critics which asks the forbidden question: are they too old to write about the music? Poking this particular stone makes all the lice curl up in a frenzy of defensiveness.
My point of view – I have no t[…]

If you’re thinking of helping top bloggers come up with amusing gangsta rap parodies of popular marketing slogans, maybe Enculturation can help you understand the medium. It gives me immense pleasure to dismiss this lengthy, footnoteful, carefu[…]