LATA MANGESHKAR – “Zamana Yeh Samhja Ke Hum Pi Ke Aaye”
Now as you may have noticed questions of authenticity and the circumstances surrounding the making of records don’t really bug me much. Head for ILM and nose around if yo[…]

More from the FT archives – and we’re only on the letter ‘D’. (A couple of pieces seem to be unformattable and I’ll try and find some other way of uploading them, too). Rescued from limbo today we have:
– Layo and […]

Is it bollocks. ‘Tacky, camp and glamorous, ‘Sunglasses At Night’ is the perfect antidote to dad house, flu rock, ‘Pop Idol’ and every other blight on the current pop landscape.’ Or so says NME.
Spurred on by simi[…]

(Wahey! I posted something NOT from Ananova!)[…]

If the world of the Dudley Corporation is currently a lonely one then THEY SHOULD NOT YET DESPAIR! For the power of my subconcious has come to save them!!! The Corpo, you see, have saved my faith in rock music many a time! In a world where the rockis[…]

The Devil has all the best tunes, as the saying goes – though he certainly did not use one for Sympathy For The Devil. I’m not so sure though, because recently I have been stuck on Dum Maro Dum by Asha Bhosle – which is from the fil[…]

Tom’s Top Ten! – now we’ve got a comments function this might actually serve some vague non-ornamental purpose.
SUGABABES – “Freak Like Me”
HOLLY VALANCE – “Kiss Kiss”
NO DOUBT – “Hell[…]

Yeah man rave on feel the vibe!: Ronan has a weblog! It’s going to be ace![…]

Oasis to boycott Top of the Pops: rejoice! They will never play the show again after six second were cut from “The Hindu Gazette”! Unfortunately there is a sting in the tale – “Oasis came in to perform seven songs which will b[…]

Piano Magic’s Glen Johnson on mostly their last album Artist’s Rifles, but with this “interesting” take on pop:
“On the contrary, I listen to it for entertainment. It makes me laugh. Particularly R ‘n’ B stu[…]