Listening to Cherry Lips by Garbage on the radio this morning it struck me that every female fronted rock band makes a record like this somewhere along the line. Poppy, with some sort of squelchy electronic sound under the chorus and sung in a very b[…]

sparks in stone lanes: more more more Sinker! And while we’re at it, a note on the “URGENT AND KEY” section. There are two ways to be promoted to the urgent and key section. One: be good. Two: bribery. There are two ways to be demot[…]

Explaination for large condom delivery at the Neverland Ranch: Michael Jackson just loves the water fights. He loves getting all damp in his fortress of wettitude, loves the joy and laughter that comes from drenching little kids in wet T-Shirts. Real[…]

There are other crazy people willing to listen to the Merzbox.
Inspired by Jess’ note below, I wish to note that an employee at the most worthy Aquarius Records in San Francisco undertook listening to the entire Merzbox for review purposes &#82[…]

Former Steps Stars H and Claire are to record as a duo! I knew it! Even back in the early days of Steps, I was a Claire and H shipper! I didn’t know the term but I loved them both. Both blonde, Claire with her tormented facial expression and al[…]

Stevie Nixed aka Helen Fordsdale from ILM aka a rainbow of other people has her own weblog hooray.[…]

Feedback Fruit Loops
Todd Burns has taken up the ultimate fools errand in modern music: reviewing the entire Merzbox (you know, the 50 CD [literally] fetishist packaged Merzbow box set, surest sign yet we live in the best and worst of all possible wo[…]

LIT – “Lipstick & Bruises”
A guilty pleasure from last year. I’m not listening to it right now, though I hear the chorus in my head. As with a good number of songs I take a liking to, I’m left wondering why this t[…]

Given that the Winter Olympics are happening in Salt Lake City (easy pub quiz question!) who else would carry the torch other than the Osmonds? Ahhh Donny and Marie. No longer famous for music, just for coming from Salt Lake City. The caption to this[…]

Cornershop to attempt world record for longest remix: There is so much information missing from this tidbit of news.
1) What is the current record? My guess is that there isn’t one, therefore anyone who finds a particularly long remix will be i[…]