c/o Josh, red balloon is a site where people post mixtapes they make on various themes. Now as you imagine I like this as an idea BUT i) as Josh says, most of the mixes are pretty unvarying, ii) there are no track-by-track comments at all, which are […]

It is a little bit pathetic to blog your own site, but needs must, and during the current FTP crisis I’ve no other means of letting people accessing this from the freakytrigger.com page know that there’s a new article up. It’s good,[…]

DEAD PREZ – “Hip Hop”(CD Single, Loud Records)
Dead Prez think all those ‘fake-ass’ streetrap records “sound the same”. which just shows they’ve not been listening properly. Except they obviously have b[…]

SONS OF THE PIONEERS – “Tumbling Tumbleweeds”(MP3)
Best known if known at all for providing the credits theme to The Big Lebowski, “Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds” manages in two-and-a-half minutes to achieve the kind of big[…]

It’s always nice when someone you admire turns out to have good taste. On the other hand, nobody’s perfect.[…]

My Science Project: it’s another music blog! Rejoice! I will be pillaging some of these links soon enough.[…]

Now that’s what I call white noise: now that’s what I call faff, as the Guardian’s redesign has made it really difficult to find the odd little bits of G2. Anyway, here’s Jonathan Romney, probably the best arts columnist in Br[…]

The suspicion is that this is a pisstake but it doesn’t work either way – EastWesterly Review – Passivity & Victimhood in Britney Spears’ “. . . Baby, One More Time”. The main reason I’m blogging it is b[…]

The ever-wonderful Mired on the Napster/Metallica thing (thanks Mike).[…]

Dancing About Architecture is a year old and I still haven’t got round to writing the piece I promised them. Bad me. Anyway, this issue has a review of The Coup and some words about Ian Dury.[…]