POP-EYE 14/1/01
I get all the best weeks. Tom has to grope around trying to write interesting things about Rui Da Silva – a known impossibility – whilst I get the pop charts version of an extremely rare astral conjunction. In this case it[…]

Renovation: I have updated the links list and kicked off a few of the ones which are either defunct or retired or I really never go to. I have also – a large but actually quite pointless if you look at my stats page task – updated the arc[…]

Tim told me that The Avalanches had made his favourite record of the year. So I asked him to review it. And here we are.[…]

Another Monday, another Am I Cool Or Not?: who is this young man and more importantly what is he into? Plus ‘keyboard girl’ assessed. As usual, thankyou to everyone who wrote in last week and you are all encouraged to give it a go this ti[…]

It is rare in the slovenly world of online music criticism for a site to redesign, so I don’t get to do my bloggin’ duty and mention it that often. However indie rock lynchpin us|against|them has not only redesigned but it is – and […]

SHARK WILSON AND THE BASEMENT HEATERS – “Make It Reggae”
“Whatever I play, it’s gonna be reggae” says Shark, so his band naturally put down a tough, springy funk groove. Or funk-reggae or funk in the process of mut[…]

Sobs, Static And Sweat: superb review of the new Jay-Z and Wu-Tang albums from the Village Voice.[…]

Chicks Dig Hip Hop: exactly what it says it is – a weblog, by women, devoted to hip-hop. And go into the archives for some of the liveliest blogvoices commentary I’ve seen. Why are there so few webogs about hip-hop, hmm?[…]

And the second must-click link this evening is this review of Almost Famous by Richard Meltzer. Meltzer uses it as an opportunity for a massive personal onslaught on Danny sugerman and another forgotten 70s teenaged rock writer: it’s bitter and[…]

Must we fling this filth at our pop kids?: where’s Bill Grundy when you need him?[…]