PIXIES – “Motorway to Roswell” (from the album Trompe Le Monde)
Well, I’ve finally come into agreement with the estimable Tom
Ewing: Trompe Le Monde is the Pixies’ finest album,
period.
While none of their albums disapp[…]

According to Bathysphere, there’s a new Smog album coming out. I’m excited, in a suitably morose, paranoid and lonely fashion.[…]

A fine piece on Serge Gainsbourg which I wish I’d read before writing my own essay.[…]

This is an excellent idea – an MP3 weblog: [EuroRanch MP3]. Of course, I have no idea what the bands are like.[…]

SAINT ETIENNE – “How We Used To Live” (CD Single)
Do let’s be beastly to the Germans. To Rococo Rot (and Sean O’Hagan of the High Llamas) assume production duties on Saint Etienne’s comeback epic and the beat promp[…]

Memoirs of an Accellerated Musical Education: one listener’s struggle to make the long march from the nightmare of Slint to the sunny uplands of Britneydom. More seriously, I think pieces like this are A Good Thing.[…]

Especially for Guy, an Adam and the Ants link…oh, wait, perhaps not. Try the fetish for antz contest instead.[…]

Ian Dury, RIP[…]

Nice to have Cathal Coughlan back in whatever form, though the track from his new release on Uncut was worryingly unmemorable.[…]

PINBACK – “Tripoli” (MP3)
The real-life Pinback may be roisterous types, but when I hear “Tripoli” I think of saucer-eyed boys in basements making quiet sounds for themselves. With its mumbling vocals, with its humming-t[…]