The admirable: Madonna’s thinking big, and she’s working through a sound not playing magpie. It’s a pretty individual sound, too: Madonna’s time-smoothed voice, funkless rhythm’n’blips from Mirwais, and soothing sh[…]

John Mayer- Why Georgia
I like his growl, and the soft whisper that makes me bend in to hear, i love how his cult of sensitive young girls is so emo, but how he doesn’t get the props emo does, i like how he makes certain words last 4 or 5 syl[…]

To call the new Scooter single ‘new’ is to make language blush, so let’s say instead that “Weekend!” is the most recent Scooter single. Or let’s say that it’s the most recent draft of the Scooter single, anot[…]

Your pop news in brief.
Junior Senior love fun. We love them.
It is Scandalous the Mis-teeq didn’t get to number one past that rubbish novelty comic relief version of Spirit In The Sky (rubbish because it isn’t even as funny as the Doctor[…]

Death metal never used to be this exhilarating. An epic soundtrack of damnation, greed and desire, it starts of sounding like a bootleg of Morbid Angel and Vanessa Carlton’s ‘A Thousand Miles’. The kick comes from the orchestration […]

Suggestion that while British pop might be good, but British popstars are rubbish. Play (a lousy name for an album = a lousy name for a band) a Swedish girl group will be attempting to crack America with covers of great British pop songs of the last […]

HANDSOME FAMILY- Have you Been Washed in The Blood of the Lamb
Old School Protestant Hymns are way more hardcore then Ozzy. Look at this one, running into seven minutes of verses, each with the chorus that starts with the line “have you been wa[…]

CHRISTINA AGUILERA – “Soar”
Okay, yes, it’s a cheesy motivational ballad. Anyone with a strong reaction to the Dianne Warren school of songwriting should just check out right now because I could type for several years and not[…]

Tom’s Top Twelve!
Lizard power! Slight change of format as instead of just a list I’ll make a stab at mentioning when and why these tracks struck me this week. New stuff first – Mad Anju‘s “Cellular Minutes” is sur[…]

My review of Live Forever, now up on Freaky Trigger – as is Mark Pitlyk’s impressionistic Boards Of Canada piece and – finally – Anthony’s piece on Morrissey and his Latino fanbase. More new content later this week, incl[…]