This week’s tracks are on the theme of PASSION – please don’t ‘spoil’ what they are. If you want to join in the voting etc. then go here.[…]

I was directed to this article by Rosie of Popular Comments Box fame (and actually a lot of this post was a reply on her LJ) – it’s a (spiked) Daily Mail piece by Oliver Postgate, creator of much loved kids’ TV icons The Clangers, […]

Playing solid Brit-soul outfit The Real Thing’s “Love’s Such A Wonderful Thing” for the first time and I’m stopped in my tracks twenty-five seconds in – “Love! Love’s such a wonderful thing – thi[…]

unexpectedly beguiling forum Q&A with of all ppl steve albini: eg from page 2, “I would have loved to watch Stevie Wonder play a whole album by himself”
(i found it via lawyers guns and money)[…]

Biblical scholars, have recently queried the standard translation of this particular part of the Bible. One of the more famous bits, this common exclamation was seen as a way of thundering against mortality, at challenging the heavens and claiming o[…]

Black Snake Moan advertises itself as a pulpy throwback exploitation movie. There, in its stab at an authentically distressed poster, we have a masterful Samuel L.Jackson towering over a chained up, skimpily dressed Christina Ricci. “Come and see a[…]

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards Of Pop is gearing up for its second smash-hit season – keep yr peepers peeled for date announcements – and in the meantime we’re putting together a compilation of the best bits of Season 1, as an intr[…]

ok so i went into islington this morning to begin changing banks, and was in the co-op where pentonville road meets islington high st — as i wz waiting to be seen i wz lookin round and there on the wall, complete with old-skool monopoly logo, […]

This week we have five songs on the theme of LOVE. To take part in the voting, go here, or email your favourite two, in order, to leagueofpop@gmail.com (you can only vote for the ones you don’t already know!).

You can find the results for last[…]

If you have seen the Kanye ‘Stronger’ video but never seen Akira, here’s what you need to know:

More screenshot comparisons here
I disagree with almost everything on that site. “There’s a lot of stuff in this music video th[…]