More on the nation’s top pop story i.e. the white female Jackson 5 tribute band. They are to fight on you’ll be pleased to hear, and NYLPM will fight on with them for as long as we can be bothered to check Ananova. Full story here![…]

Wisdom Goof: shock! A music weblog full of tiny personal essays (Good Thing) by somebody who isn’t part of our jaded macro-clique i.e. no links to the usual suspects. Explore at leisure.
(Update: I’ve been doing just that and it really is[…]

Football chiefs after Ant & Dec for World Cup Song: Hmm, football chiefs might be on to a slightly better bet that Bubble and Dean anyway. Ant & Dec (who knows, maybe they will resurrect their PJ & Duncan identities) of course were nom[…]

Bubble and Dean write World Cup song: misty-eyed foreigners who yearn for UK pop scene please note.[…]

Blacked Up Female Jackson 5 in racist shockah![…]

SPECIAL MOTH – SQUAREPUSHER STOLE MY BARBEQUE
It’s probably wrong to have a music obsessed boyfriend and ask him what he thinks of your record collection. But IF LUVVIN YOU IS WRONG, I DON’T WANNA BE RIGHT or in other words, I went […]

HELMET – “Unsung”
Sounds like Black Sabbath – “Ironman”, to be exact. A bit faster (of course), and the guitars are extra-shiny, but Page Hamilton’s barking marches in step with Ozzy’s caterwauling. T[…]

daveyblog: this is the bloke who I got that chart of bootleg MP3s from. A link as promised![…]

“I’m thrilled that Sting has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. Next for his KNIGHTHOOD!”: the UK music business provides one moment of rock-solid entertainment every year – no, not the BRIT Awards, but the Talking P[…]

JIMI HENDRIX – “Drifting”
Notes enter, chiming like church bells, repeating and ringing over each other. Then a light patter of drums, a brief reminisce of old sounds, running backwards now, before that voice comes. Floating, drifti[…]