PopNose12 (1.5M) Today’s PopNose is unique in that I’ve not actually even heard it! It was picked by Nathalie and then prepared by me. The one slight drawback is that if I’ve got a shonky file I won’t know about it. Meanwhile,[…]

An interview with me about blogging. It’s a bit dry and grumpy because I did it in a rush at the end of work. There are interviews with other people too, all of whom write in Swedish: BIG UP THE SWEDISH BLOGOSPHERE! And of course the week after[…]

Entertaining to read Simon fessing up to not getting Kid Creole etc back in the day. One of the persistent curiosities of anglo-critical response to non-anglo music is the eternal threshold problem of the erm ‘Latin Tinge‘: Brit jazzbos a[…]

Google Stat Of The Week, #1 In A Series Etc Etc
FACTORY-MADE
“manufactured pop”: 9,310
“manufactured rock”: 464 (largely about landscaping, alas)
“manufactured soul”: 121
“manufactured dance”: 54
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Symptoms of MP3 Culture Part 345296: I just caught myself congratulating myself for being late to a record – not only not hearing the Wiley record until it’s in the shops but mostly avoiding the web talk on it, so that the gorgeous, gorge[…]

Some ambitions seem so unlikely that they end up just being vague curiosities. For instance I always assumed there was some kind of vetting process for TV pop show audiences and that a fat bearded thirtysomething would fall well outside it. So it cam[…]

Numerological mysteries: Three “not a nice number” says Anthony from Blue. My understanding is that Lee has been planning a solo release for ages – he was going on about an anti-war single last year to the distaste of leading politi[…]

I Resemble That Remark: Alexis Petridis turns link-slut as he identifies Wiley’s two fanbases – and heartily patronises both of them. I have banned myself from ILX during the working day but I can confidently expect a 200-post thread to b[…]

BLAME IT ON THE RAMONES:
This is MUMMY THE PEEPSHOW. They are on the all-girl Japanese Benten label. Their drummer is called IxMxDxUx. They do a cover version of “Banned from the Pubs” by Peter and the Test Tube Babies. Another song is &[…]

Pink on legal warpath. There are no details given on what exactly the naughty leaflet said about Pink, or how exactly it would have helped win the Austrian elections. Any guesses?[…]