Read Aural Innovations: it’s the global source for spacerock exploration. My knee-jerk personal reaction is naturally “God help us if there’s a war”, but all things have their place in this creation, even spacerock, and this d[…]

Tribute Songs: vastly useless compendium of cash-in dreck. Beatles feature heavily. Found via a search for Cats UK’s “Luton Airport”, obviously.[…]

RADIOHEAD – “Pull/pulk Revolving Doors”
The bass is a black hole and Thom Yorke’s voice is stretched to a ribbon around it: there’s a factory thump and suddenly and often the song decompresses into garbled lift-music hea[…]

GrokeMixOne: so I have a new stereo, and I got to make my first tape in two years. What better way to mark the occasion than self-indulgently posting it to Art Of The Mix. Only I am to blame for the track selection but you can blame Kathleen for the […]

Gasp! Choke! – a teen star with a brand image? whatever next? (via everywhere).
Observation: real music fans’ stagey shock and outrage at a teen star being caught with a marketing plan is an amusing mirror of media stagey outrage at a roc[…]

The more articles I read about nu-metal, the more I like nu-metal: this pretty much has me heading down the tattooists to get “Durst Rulez” on both forearms. Nu-metal pieces are starting to follow a set pattern: jaded twentysomething bitc[…]

Quick quiz: who do you think Glenn McDonald is talking about when he says “If Keith Moon had lived to hear drum-and-bass, I can imagine this being his response.”?
If you said “Found That Soul” by the Manic Street Preachers, ha[…]

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – “I Don’t Believe In the Sun”
I put on Vol 1 of 69 Love Songs at work today. I thought it might sound deadpan and cynical next to the Top 40 we listen to. It sounded wimpier and sappier.[…]

JOY DIVISION – “Glass”/”Digital”
There are those — I’ve met some, sad but true — who believe Joy Division songs might be lovely if only they’d turned the guitars up a bit and the drums and vocals […]

Am I Cool Or Not?: a bulging sack of mail for this week’s subject. Etc.[…]