It’s a concept album about the Great War which is better than The Final Cut: you couldn’t have dreamed of such a thing but hey, Piano Magic have pulled it off with Artist’s Rifles, or so sez Tim. By an astounding synchronicity I bou[…]

An unforeseen problem with the hot new MP3 tradin’ technology is that a spelling mistake on one MP3 file can rapidly spread around the whole net. Hence the error Greg points out – my bootleg copy of “Thong Song” is proudly cre[…]

The English Motorway System: Thoughts on Luke Haines: “Haines is the sort of songwriter you need in any country” – a new piece on Robin Carmody’s Elidor site, an interesting look at Haines’ work with the Auteurs and Blac[…]

Lambchop: Nixon: Pitchfork Review “In the plainest terms possible, Nixon is a record for grandmothers and hipsters.”. Pitchfork turns its attention to Lambchop – good review, somewhat harsh. I agree that Nixon doesn’t really m[…]

OK Computer: “Indeed, this is an “R&B” that’s increasingly sci-fi in its hysterical self-loathing flight from the American earth of roadhouse, kitchen, church, juke joint, whorehouse, etc.” Well, thank goodness for […]

Well, until the ftp’s back up, I can do my ranting here…
Has this already been blogged here? Ah, no matter. The minipops site made me squeal with glee, and will no doubt inspire similar reactions in the charming and smart post-everythingi[…]

Still no FTP access (apologies to fans of Duel, Tanya and Mike) so you get a review instead:
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – “The Stars Of Track And Field”
THIRD EYE BLIND – “Never Let You Go”
LFO – “Summer Girls[…]

Moltar’s Page of the Beautiful Rock Hair: alt boyz like nothing more than to disrespect ‘hair metal’. While NYLPM’s kneejerk revisionism can’t go so far as to rehabilitate the noise Whitesnake actually made, it’s w[…]

“I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die…”
That line from “Folsom Prison Blues” still gets a reaction out of the crowds whenever he plays just as it got one from the inmates at Folsom Prison when he performed this son[…]

What’s on your RIO?: My new MP3 player is just so lovely, even if it is objectively speaking an overpriced gew-gaw which is a hassle to update all the time. But from my single-holic point of view, it’s a treat. What have I been listening […]