Tom’s Top Twelve
Sorry it’s been a while!
GIRLS ALOUD – “No Good Advice”
SEVERED HEADS – “Dead Eyes Opened”
BLACK EYED PEAS feat JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – “Where Is The Love”
THE RAPTURE &#8[…]

Casualties of a) the Reality-Pop arena vote and b) an ill-timed split return with more or less desperate dice-throws. Rarely has a No.2 hitmaker been considered as instant a failure as One True Voice — but then with Girls Aloud making the best […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Poem-Cees – PARANOIA
I put the headphones on and lean back. Jagged guitar assaults my ears and fear grips me as I hear the harrowing opening litany. THEY ARE OUT TO GET ME.
The beat kicks in. We’re in party mode, but things […]

I like this new genuine heartbroken Beck, where his bricolage and fake hipster poses can no longer protect a broken heart, and he stops being anything but real. This is supposed to be the new authenticity, we are supposed to be real, and the realness[…]

Some current lip-flapping in the UK centred on the current collapse in singles sales and the imminent doom of the charts – here’s the Guardian’s laughable contribution courtesy of Dave Lee Travis, who once shocked John Peel by admit[…]

I’ve not been listening to music much the last couple of weeks and seeing as what I want to hear is this kind of syrup-sluiced corn-hop you’re doubtless thinking that’s NO BAD THING, anyway I’ve not even put the radio on, not […]

Chicks on Speed-EuroTrash Girl
This is a blackened, dirty, sexy, artifice ridden cover , done by people who have never left ny, the electroclash banging percussion, the nicospit vocals-what it lacks is the fuck you punk class war that cracker did so […]

FREEWAY – “What We Do”
Roc-a-fella’s post-ironic smash & grab raids on symphonic soul continue, subverting some musty old relic pinched from Just Blaze’s dad’s basement, one of those off-hand slices of doped a[…]

FREAKS – The Man Who Lived Underground
What a perfectly odd little art-efact: a series of windows opening up to strange goings on, ruttings, gruntings, slices of a party you weren’t invited to and aren’t quite sure if that makes you[…]

Linus Loves-“The Terrace”
It’s actually May. Difficult to believe. Have I been out less or have there been less good records to rave about/to?
Either way I’ve been mostly listening to my favourites from last year, aswell as c[…]