MORRISSEY – “Bengali In Platforms” (from the album Viva Hate)
A link to my piece on Morrissey was published on a big Moz website, and it garnered much praise but also caused a bit of controversy. This ‘review’ is my repl[…]

BLACK BOX RECORDER – Brutality (from CD single The Facts of Life, Nude Records)
Chris Morris references are, I admit, unhealthily recurrent in my contributions here. But the calm, polite, cut-glass tones of Sarah Nixey intoning such calm, gent[…]

HUNDRED STRONG feat ASPECTS – Paranoia
HUNDRED STRONG feat GRANDMASTER GARNER & BEANZ OBE – Prayer
HUNDRED STRONG feat OBSCURE DISORDER & A-TRAK – Superior Raps
HUNDRED STRONG feat ASPECTS – Transcontinental
(all fro[…]

CHEAP TRICK – “I Want You To Want Me” (from the LP In Color)
ORANGE JUICE – “Consolation Prize” (from the LP You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever)
Cheap Trick’s crunchy, brainy stadium-powerpop and Orange J[…]

Meet Sen. Kerrey, MP3 Pirate?: from Wired.[…]

Kool Keith is fucking crazy: review of Keith live in New York at Mired.[…]

BOBBY – “Dogeared” (MP3)
Too good to be true, really. Somebody comes to Freaky Trigger via doing an AltaVista search on “clever music”. They chat to me via HumanClick. Not so promising since I only like Dumb Music, hur h[…]

The sound of violence: also from The Guardian. The problem here is that I don’t buy this idea of violent images ‘subverting’ pop, because it assumes that the visuals dominate the music, when I’d say the relationship, especiall[…]

Spirit of ’69: Guardian pop critic Tom Cox has an absolute right to like boring music, but why does he have to be so defensive about it?[…]

Oi! GERI!. No! One thing and one thing only makes this the worst design idea I’ve ever seen on a music site. Click on the ‘natural look’ Geri picture and you too will learn the true meaning of Pop.[…]