“Blame Jim O’Rourke” says Philip Sherburne. Which is not exactly germane to the arguments he puts forward about electroclash and about techno going pop here, here and here, but is a catchy hook for a blog entry. So, yeah, electrocla[…]

Super Bad:”It is our view that (with the exception of the majority of such e-mails received, which are in, full, support of our position) all such e-mailers should, not only be concerned but outraged, over the fact that a people, whose ancestry[…]

Here is a different way of measuring the popularity of various types of music. Here are a selection of lists from the Performing Rights Society which run through the most covered artists by live acts, the most performed reggae, folk tunes and the mos[…]

I Love Music and I Love Everything have MOVED: They are now to be found at www.ilxor.com. From now on you will no longer be able to ask new questions on the old sites, and as much as possible we’ll be disabling posting too and redirecting speci[…]

SUGABABES – “Round Round”
Higgins. Cooper. Cowling. Powell. Coler. Buchanan. Buena. Range. Pflueger. Stecher. Hofmann. Spadavecchiaand. These are the twelve people who wrote “Round Round”. This is twice as many people as[…]

Steve Earle-John Walkers Blues
It has had controversy, and then controversy about that controversy and then call outs about how the artist is doing this for the publicity, which makes Steve Earle’s John Walkers Blues an official meme.
I have […]

From today’s Times (thanks Magnus):
“According to the experts on The Times arts staff, there are now so many distinct types of music that different factions tend to do their own thing and ignore each other. The only way in which they can […]

Blogcritics has launched, promising the ‘best writers’ online talking about music and stuff. I didn’t recognise any of the names myself but that’s fine, right? An opportunity to find some good new online writers. The issues so[…]

What was the most startling thing about Eminem’s ‘Stan’? The supposed sensitivity of the formerly cartoon yob? The genuine sentiment in its lyrics? The role-playing and success of Slim Shady being able to emote in both roles (not th[…]

Back In The Jug Agane is a personal web page, by me. Call it a blog if you like. It doesn’t currently have links, a readable font, or a bearable background colour, let alone anything as complicated as a ‘design’, but it has a couple[…]