Finally I get round to replying to Western Homes, whose mention of us last Wednesday has sparked a monster flood of hits at precisely the point at which my social life explodes, my sleeping patterns head west and my weblogging as a result goes comple[…]

Ain’t Nuttin’ But A G Thang For Becks – fantastic! Apparently the newspaper New Nation claimed that David Beckham was “a walking tribute to Tupac Shakur”.
This news has been out a month, so why has no one jumped on it? […]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. There’s a new PopJustice up (only one joke, but a good one) and about a billion reviews of bands I know nothing about (a surefire mark of quality, go get ’em kids) at Splendid.[…]

The Great Tune Robbery – in which the NME reports the “news” that the chords to Travis’ “Writing To Reach You” are the same as the chords to “Wonderwall”. This comes as no surprise to anyone who’s[…]

Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP: you will roll your eyes when you read the review, and if you wish to laugh like a dog when you see the accompanying photo, I cannot stop you. Ken Tucker drops in a Genet reference to show he’s a clever guy, then[…]

Star guests on first Go-Betweens album for 12 years: (link via Fred, who’s been keeping the music blog flame alive during my relative inactivity). Well, on the one hand it’s a new Go-Betweens album. On the other hand it’s a new Go-B[…]

For a Rock Aesthetic “It is quite pathetic to read essay by Wilfred Mellers, Ned Rorem or Tony Palmer concerned with comparing the Lennon-McCartney songbook to Schubert or Poulenc, as if work in the genre of ‘song’ could have any ae[…]

CV of CV: dry but informative Caetano Veloso biography, from the altogether more colourful Caravan Music, a one-stop shop for Brazilian music.[…]

So, why haven’t you been updating all day, Tom? Well, O Reader, that’s because I’ve been editing the The Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group, June 2000, the definitive overview of the first six months of Y2K in pop. It rules &#8211[…]

DUEL! – ROUND 2: the server is back and so is Duel! Stereophonics vs Kravitz – nasty.
Lack of promised updates because I’ve been a) a bit poorly, b) working on the focus group.[…]