Kid Rock Starves To Death: MP3 Piracy Blamed – everyone will be linking to this one, too. And so they should.[…]

Biblical View of Music: Right. Recent discussions on e-mail have focussed on the difficulties of finding music that everybody likes. Thankfully I have been able to cut through this Gordian Knot with the help of this useful text, which outlines The Lo[…]

Geri lands film role, playing a girl perpetually in therapy. How curiously appropriate.[…]

Drug Thesis: using music as an investment guide for the culturally-aware dealer. Written in 1997, concludes by telling you to buy lots of acid. It’s three years later and from my limited knowledge of the chemical ‘scene’ acid is as […]

Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music: More Than This: The Best of…: Pitchfork Review “While ignorant rich people do enjoy music to a limited extent, the infinite pleasures of Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits or Wings’ Greatest could never comp[…]

Sonic Youth: NYC Ghosts & Flowers: Pitchfork Review – of course everyone’s going to be linking to this. Pitchfork continues to turn into the NME, and this is the equivalent of that mag’s wannabe-notorious Stereolab review, even[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 10
MOTORHEAD – “We Are The Road Crew” (from the album All The Aces, and doubtless many others)
Brit-metal tends to either the fantastical or the brutally down-to-earth. Which side are Motorhead on, I w[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 9
STAR TURN ON 45 PINTS – “Pump Up The Bitter” (7″ single)
In England, the ‘answer record’ long since got elided into the ‘novelty record’ – our Top 40 is unparallel[…]

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – “Legal Man”
A goofy 60s-pop pastiche which sounds a little like the theme from Eurotrash, a little like Stereolab on a Ribena high, and a little like a group doing whatever they want, because they know their fa[…]

Signal Drench did a Top 100 albums of the 90s. I’m a sucker for top 100 albumses of the ninetieses, as you know. Signal Drench’s I mostly disagree with, especially the top end (Slint annoy me), but there’s some neat and compact writ[…]