www.reggae-riddims.com – Blimey! (thanks Tim)[…]

POP-EYE RINGTONE REVIEWS!
Forget this “singles” nonsense! The “kids” today rate their “pop” based on one thing only – how does it sound coming out your PHONE when you get a call and your “mates” a[…]

Eight Fragments For Barry Gibb: an excellent little essay by Mark Richard-San, about disco revisionism. The sort of thing I’d absolutely love to have run myself, actually.[…]

Mobos 2002: The nominees: like most UK awards there’s a faint tinge of the unneccessary about the MOBOs, and the polite fudge that “music of black origin” needn’t be “music made by black people” is typically Britis[…]

Pitchfork Link Of The Day (yeah sorry, to you and to P’fork actually) – the 2 Many DJs mix CD. Vaguely unsatisfying review – the summary I think is that he likes it but he’s worried it won’t last. A lot of reviewers on t[…]

TIRIRICA – Calango
Listening to 103.9 in the car this woman asks for “the song about the calango” because her daughter loves it and always sing with it, i was just about to change the station thinking this would be awful but while[…]

It’s September kids, and the summer season – hiatus – pissing off on holiday whatever you may call it has finished. Here, riding over the hill like some Combined Science Teacher who couldn’t get another job, is Pop-Eye. Its be[…]

Where Am I? I thought I’d better make some kind of announcement since Freaky Trigger hasn’t been updated for over a month. There is a decent backlog of articles building up but basically I’ve been too busy to give it much attention.[…]

Last night at the VMA’s
Watching Michael Jackson receiving the ‘Artist Of The Millennium’ award felt like watching a public execution. Or maybe an ambush. “Here’s the award our intern won on open mic-night last week. Say[…]

Tot of the pops: also from the low-on-puns Guardian is this creepy article about dressing your sprogs in band t-shirts. ” “Usually, it’s someone who’s been a little bit cool in the past,” says Susan Haire of Baby Munchki[…]