Pop Factor: 709 Controversy Factor: 255
Trying to be Madonna is a noble and not uncommon aim for our pop stars. Britney tries, Christina tries – you could probably make a case for Robbie trying, and let’s not even consider the efforts o[…]

END-TIMES WATCH MUSIC THEME ISSUE: UPDATE!!
the horror! the horror!!!
Stourbridge Scene Special with guests:
>> The Wonder Stuff’s Miles Hunt
>> Pop Will Eat Itself’s Clint Mansell
>> Ned’s Atomic Dustbin’s Jonn Penney[…]

Nearly all of the news about the Ukrainian Election Crisis has been has been predicated on the tug of war between east and west and a Putin vs Bush new world order being played out in White Russia. No-one appears to have picked up a much more signifi[…]

END-TIMES WATCH MUSIC THEME ISSUE : i. a co-worker just came in to announce he has tickets to the POP WILL EAT ITSELF reunion show ii. a second co-worker then told EVERYONE IN THE ROOM that he once SHARED A BED with CLINT of pwei iii. :O :O :O :O :O […]

Cat Power and The Handsome Boy Modeling School?Be My Boy.
I?ve been about thinking about Cat Power, and I’m thinking of her cover of Wild is the Wind, that grand Peyton place chantey about lost opportunity, and about how much more sad she made […]

I have your straw man right here, Sir
Reason to Rock – offered as a handy resource for certain ongoing ILM debates.[…]

I thought as much.: Britain’s (occasionally) best pop band destroyed by the evil forces within it. Unless of course the real reason for the ‘break’ is that Charlie wants to get in some pre-election campaigning for Mr.Howard.[…]

World-historical EuroNoiseniks meet Post-Ballardian Prime-Time Cop Procedural: ok so grissom and the black guy were diggin a PREGNANT* SKELETON out a blob of CONCRETE in the BACK-LOT of a MOTEL (yeah this is a repeat but i missed the first part of it[…]

Who is Alexander Kowalski? — well, actually I don’t need to ask that because first I found this Discogs.com bit and that led me to his homepage and now I have the basics. But I only just heard him today, specifically the Progress and Res[…]

Just because it’s Friday
Two music writers, one of whom has a prominent regular writing gig, the other of which is giving music fans something actually useful and getting no money at all. Can you guess which is which?
1. Jess Harvell, whose sit[…]