The Breakfast Club Night can be counted a success, I reckon. We had a devil of a time getting the decks sorted out but once that was out of the way everyone had a good time. The venue – The Chapel in Islington – is a good one, just the ri[…]

Is a history of pop desirable? – is of course quite another question…[…]

Histories Of Pop Music: I started this thread as an oblique way of asking whether a history of pop music is even possible. I think it is possible, though fraught with difficulty – for one thing I have no idea where it would start. When were the[…]

At the last Club Freaky Trigger I played my Nuclear Doomsday set, a collection of atomic tat that drew heavily on a bunch of 40s and 50s MP3s I’d scarfed off a sharing site a year or two before. Now I have taken the chance to make an honest fil[…]

This is amazing.: lovingly compiled piece about the computer games included free on various 80s British records (eg the Shakin’ Stevens game), with links to the actual games in playable form! Also if I remember rightly Kempa.com is an AMERICAN […]

Recommended: picked up a Dancehall mix CD in Berwick Street on the way to the pub last night – Timeport Episode III. I don’t know if this is at all typical of dancehall CDs but the mixing is very fast – 68 tracks on one CD and 94 on[…]

I Love You Big Dummy!: Erstwhile blogster (& AMG man about town) Andy K once again frustrates link-happy blogsters wanting to come correct with the referral love by changing his URL yet again. And it’s not a weeblog anymore! But he&#821[…]

Boards of Canada were right![…]

Just a reminder of this. We’re busy plotting those 80s/00s pop connections now and it’s going to be a lot of fun. Suggestions are, of course, welcome![…]

Good work Disturbed! We are now maybe three outraged news stories away from someone actually, seriously, using the phrase “Death To False Metal!” again. Then The Darkness’ work here will be complete.[…]