Last To The Links Dept.: Feed writes about marketing the alternative and everyone seems either pragmatic or defeatist about the new indie music trend in car ads (which I personally find just as annoying as the soulboy chic that dominated ads in the l[…]

DUEL!: it’s back. Embrace vs Ian Brown – go for it.[…]

Good Heavens, this is poor! I thought BDB was supposed to be some sort of back-bedroom indie original, not this back-pub-room plodrocker. His being signed to XL should have been the tip-off: the only people who’ll go for BDB are ex-indie fans w[…]

Link not from Guardian shocker! PopJustice is back with the Slipknot Calculator! Bonus points for their mention of 2 In A Tent vs 2 In A Room, a pop puzzler which has kept us occupied in the pub for what seems like 7 out of the last 8 visits.[…]

Free lunch with the net bandits “The American book trade (which has since gobbled up ours) is founded on a century of napsterising” – another day, another MP3 musing.[…]

Metallica’s New Album is Napster-Proof: rockin’! My index and little fingers are twitching already. With lyrics of the caliber of “T3 lines they are my bane / Evil Napster I wish you never came.” (has Slorta Vileblade joined t[…]

Please be aware that, while I genuinely like some Tull stuff, I certainly don’t rate them particularly highly in the great scheme of things (their version of “The Dambusters March” is literally unlistenable). I’m well aware t[…]

Jethro Tull. Simply writing the words here feels like entering some kind of permanently culturally forbidden territory, a hidden world that we are told permanently not to enter. It was punk that did it, of course. The conscious “Englishness&#82[…]

The Weekend Stops Here: a radio show run by a nice person who HumanClicked me after reaching Freaky Trigger via a search for the Magnetic Fields. Hooray for the Magnetic Fields! So I promised him a link and here it is. If you’re in the Cambridg[…]

You are Invited: I was indeed invited to link to this Dismemberment Plan site. An e-mail to NYLPM pretty much guarantees a link at some point, even if that point is the point in the far, far future when I clear my inbox out. I won’t add much in[…]