You’ll have to forgive me for being in a rigidly literal frame of mind, but when I hear cab dispatcher Ben Gibbard offer this couplet to the kids of America:
‘So this is the new year / And I don’t feel any different’
‘ I[…]

Pop Life Blog: lots of very good stuff here! Derek was it you who works at a certain West-Central London second-hand chain and wrote to FT a while ago? If so I am very very sorry for not replying, no excuses, I am just rubbish with email. Anyway read[…]

Last night for the first time in my life I had one of those going-out-without-trousers dreams, an absolutely standard part of the dream lexicon but one that had not troubled me. I can only put it down to all the discussion on critical authority that […]

Popnose: let’s try that again, shall we… (now with actual new tracks!)[…]

Poptimism: an unexpected ally!! (If it is him – he doesn’t seem terribly optimistic here anyhow)[…]

For my wedding present Mike Daddino very very kindly gave me a massive folder of CD-Rs, full of MP3s. Among them were every MP3 he’d managed to track down (as of 2001 or so) from the Appendices of Simon Reynolds‘ Energy Flash. I’ve […]

Even More Ambushed By Unexpected Emotion #???: I didn’t listen to the Buffy musical that much since I wrote this, and I was only relistening for actual real work reasons. A lot more of it than I would have predicted snagged at something inside […]

KISS AMC – “A Bit Of U2”
UK pop-rap crossover from 1989 which goes straight for the obvious-bone and pastes great wodges of “New Year’s Day” into tumbling raps. Kiss AMC had family connections to Ruthless Rap Assas[…]

Here’s a little confession: it’s been close to three years since I listened to a Magnetic Fields album. In fact if you haven’t been reading FT since way back when you probably didn’t even realise how much I loved that band. Th[…]

The mantle of Jeremiah suits Mark K-Punk very well, which is a shame in a way – the enthusiastic posts he made about The Stone Tape and Talons Of Weng-Chiang were really excellent, insightful, itching-to-watch-it-again stuff. His gloomier stuff[…]