The complete text of Stuart Home’s Cranked Up Really High, which is a rather good book about punk rock (very rude to Greil Marcus!). It’s in super-unwieldy text format but I’m sure you techie people can work out a way round that.[…]

A special AICON plea: can we please have some of you men reading FT sending your pictures in? This is not to say that women sending their pictures to Am I Cool Or Not are unwelcome – in fact when I started the feature I thought I’d be luc[…]

This weekend I finished Paul Morley’s Nothing which I urge everyone to buy. A response – belated, possibly, though that’s the (a) point of the book – to the suicide of his father, it’s one of the most intelligent and aff[…]

Smells Like Steve Perry: “wannabe Chuck Eddys”, we were called by Mark Richardson on ILM recently, and there’s a fair bit of truth in that. This though is the best refutation (best cause it’s only partially refuting things) of[…]

Am I Cool Or Not? – Cool or Fool: the decision, once again, is yours.[…]

cutoffaPOPear – via Tim this is James Lucas’ blog and he gets an extra big fat link which you must all click on to make up for the fact that I’ve not responded yet about the CDs he so kindly sent me. Sorry James, I’ll get to i[…]

WU TANG-CLAN – “I Can’t Go To Sleep”
In Robin Carmody’s review of the Clan’s The W album, “I Can’t Go To Sleep” comes in for particular criticism – Robin sees the stricken lachrymosity of Gh[…]

Kid 606′ PS I Love You reviewed by the NME. My first thought on listening to this record – which I’m not sure whether I like or not though I think it’s pleasant – is that all the reviews would be exactly like this one, i[…]

The new music weblogs just keep on coming: kill one and ten more spring up to take its place. Brought to my attention today was Bleeding Ears, a reviews-and-links blog on vaguely NYLPM-ish lines. If you like the stuff you read here, or on Robin&#8217[…]

I have been good and updated all FT’s article archives: music reviews, thinkpieces, and non-music articles now all brought up to date. Some of the best pop writing on the Internet rubs shoulders with a load of old pony – have a look and s[…]