102 Beats That – finally gets going! Thanks for your patience on this one. The first 12 entries are now up, with 6 or so to follow every day I get a chance until all 72 are online. We hope you enjoy it.[…]

POP-EYE 14/4/02
Guess what readers. Unchained Melody is still number one. Mr Gates (now sadly relieved of his white suit) holds off all comers yet again — not that the top ten reveals many artists who could be called comers in any sense of the […]

What was little Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle thinking? Boas and lipstick and leopard print, oh my: a long way from The Scratch Orchestra, that. (Or maybe not, if punk was the liberator of the secret knowledge of production and perf[…]

THE AVALANCHES – “Live on Radio One at Ibiza, 4/8/01”
After a straightforward tour of Carribbean rhythms, and before a totally righteous collision of The Jackson Sisters, Madonna, Bob Dylan and the Avalanches themselves, the most co[…]

Indie Rock Bus Review: The search for the new continues, and on this short bus journey I was not going to be enlightened. I heard two very freah out the box good tracks, but I didn’t hear anything that I would call groundbreaking. First up was […]

DUEL 2002! Round 2 Match 1
Welcome to the second round of Duel! 2002, the ongoing search for the worst band in the world at the present time. The second round differs from the first in one important way — from now on we’ll be giving bands[…]

If you’re going to do a list, do it like this. (Referring to Ethan’s Rap albums, not whatever shows up here tomorrow). (Also I’m about to ignore my own advice.)[…]

NY Mirror: Fly Life: har har Electroclash backlash but even if the scene is a desperate retread of times past, this article isn’t saying much new either. Put down your drum machines and go and listen to some funk jams, kids! – like that w[…]

Moloko, “Sing It Back (Herbert’s Tasteful Dub)”
The first thing that seduces you about a Herbert production is the sensuousness of noise sounds. There’s very little here in the way of “natural” sounds, maybe the d[…]

A very quick update before the birthday special gets going next week – Ronan Fitzgerald contributes a Futurism review and becomes the first Freaky Trigger writer ever to use the phrase “this is rock and roll”. The early 80s time-tra[…]