Tom’s Top Ten! (Lazy retro edition)
SAINT ETIENNE feat WILDFLOWER – “Soft Like You”
THE BEACH BOYS – “Surf’s Up”
BOB ANDY – “You Don’t Know”
HANK WILLIAMS SR – “Your […]

No Rock And Roll Fun does what others couldn’t be arsed to and entertainingly demolishes that ‘Conservative Top 40’ from a few days back.[…]

This One’s 4 Nicole: it’s a weblog by ILE’s Dave Q![…]

The Real Actual Bulworth: white-suited anti-corruption ex-MP Martin Bell to make hip-hop record focussing on ‘dumbing down’ in the media. “The idea for the track came from Andy Lawson, creative director of Like Minds, an ideas gener[…]

The Sixth Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group: Yes it’s FINALLY HERE![…]

Conservative Pop Music: via Nate P’s blog comes this list of great conservative pop songs. “Al Wilson, ‘The Snake’ (#27, 1968): explains liberalism”. I very much disagree with most of the views the guy seems to hold but […]

SAINT ETIENNE feat. WILDFLOWER – “Soft Like Me”
I feel a bit bad for giving “Action” a slagging here the other week – it does do an adequate job of leading off Finisterre but the real highpoints come later in the d[…]

Abortion is not very popular among New Country’s demographic; when children are involved it’s usually a positive thing, a sign of God’s providence. There are hundreds of ‘well she got pregnant young, but we pulled through song[…]

PUERTO MUERTO – Jean Lafitte
What is the secret of a good record? Innovation often swings it, or even better the fine crafting of someone else innovation. It can be the pure buffing of production, or the raw excitement of something lo-fi and en[…]

The day the music died: Stuart Jeffries puts the case against Pop Idol and the colonisation of the charts by TV. A lot of blood and thunder and what seems to be a strong central point (ignoring the use of the lazy m-word) – “Manufactured […]