Do you remember the Indie Index, which was blogged here a while back? Well, it’s moved, though the basic idea seems to be the same (meet other indie kids and swap records and spit with them). I can’t describe the indie delights to be foun[…]

Fans of Duel! wanting some more hot voting action might like to note that Kathleen is running a poll on her site to determine the most repulsive man in rock. Her list of candidates is indeed stomach-turning (although speaking of stomachs, where is Ti[…]

Josh has lots of interesting stuff to say about musical dialogue: he sees mainstream pop as not providing any dialogue, I obviously see it as providing lots, at least by my biased definition of dialogue, where the art in question doesn’t have t[…]

DUEL! – Semi Finals: shock results yesterday leave Skunk Anansie clear favourites. Can they be beaten by the Smashing Pumpkins??[…]

‘DOCK’ BOGGS – “Pretty Polly”
BAN THIS SICK RECORD! “Pretty Polly” is a misogynist tract full of hatred and bile, narrating the killing of a defenseless girl from the amoral murderer’s point of view. It[…]

The changing of the avant-garde: “these songs are not, strictly speaking, songs at all. They are jams, montages, sonic experiments, unrelieved by vocal melodies or hooklines. Yorke’s voice seems to have become another instrument rather th[…]

Piano Magic’s Artists Rifles: I don’t think it’s the greatest review in the world, but I’m very pleased to have bashed out a vaguely substantial piece for the first time in a month or so. (Not that a lot of the blogstuff isn&#[…]

DUEL! – Quarter Finals: the other two Duel! Quarter-Finals. Hurry, hurry, hurry as they won’t be up for long! Stereophonics vs Travis and Embrace vs Moby.[…]

SoYouWanna fake being an indie rock expert? (link via Amp To Rock): I’m in two minds about this one. First off it tackles the indie scene with refreshing cynicism. But second off it actually seems semi-serious, and a lot of its musical judgemen[…]

Thanks to Tim H for a list of releases by The Clientele. The first link has MP3s and .wavs and things to make your life nicer. (And Tim, no, you probably wouldn’t like Piano Magic – they’re quite cold and intellectual. But I might b[…]