Some excerpts from my aborted notes to Mark Sinker’s epic “noise” essay (themselves a bastardization of an aborted essay on Lester Bangs/Richard Meltzer [just be thankful I left out the two paragraphs comparing Steve Albini to Dean […]

I am almost certain that the music that gets played at School Disco.com (though what is with that stupid suffix?) is more enjoyable than the music that gets played at Cream, but I still share the undercurrent of unease running through Alexis Petridis[…]

Grokepile is back!: I can upload again! (Get your requests in now.)[…]

Freaky Trigger vs The Cockfarmers – slight return.[…]

GEORGE MICHAEL – Shoot The Dog
Not the first person you would imagine knocking out an anti-American political song – George Michael. Certainly it is not the first time George has wandered down the route of po-facedness – both Songs […]

WILLIE NELSON – WILLIE NELSON’S GREATEST HITS…AND SOME THAT WILL BE
Dig this: a little girl is born in the middle of WWII. She is Italian and she is Catholic and from Brooklyn. She also more than a little sensitive, in a good way. I[…]

timothy white, r.i.p. – somewhat lost in the midst of the news of john entwistle’s passing was word of the death of billboard editor-in-chief timothy white who died at the age of 50 of an apparent heart attack last night, just as the maga[…]

I’LL PUT YOU OUT
Eminem is currently one of the most popular recording artists in the U.S. Clearly a lot of kids can relate to what he has to say (Eminem spends quite a bit of the opening track, “White America,” making sure we know […]

Expertise – is the first of three new pieces on Freaky Trigger, talking about hip-hop and football and writing and, well, stuff. It’s joined by Ronan’s review of Jon Carter’s Totally Bugged Out mix CD, and by my look at Talkin[…]

What is a summer record? Obviously having a release date around June coinciding with the one sunny week we have had here in the UK helps, but what is that magical ingredient that make “Walking On Sunshine”, “Echo Beach” or &#8[…]