8. 2 Unlimited – The Magic Friend
I have a terrible confession to make. Much as I love 2 Unlimited, I have never rated Ray’s rapping. (more…)[…]

GIRLS ALOUD – “Fling”
The last Girls Aloud album, Chemistry, came with an excellent bonus disc of Christmas songs, including originals like “Not Tonight Santa” and “Christmas Round At Ours”, stuffed with good[…]

This month’s Poptimist column is basically a review of the Britney Spears album. I have slightly mixed feelings about it (the column not the album, which is a TOP POP SMASHER) – some of the ideas in the piece are “notational”[…]

so i was watching boyz II men’s tep 20 R&B ballads of all time on TFM, and one of them was janet jackson’s odd, low-key sexmumble of a song, “any time any place”, and in the video there was a vinyl record playing on the turntable,[…]

Philip Sherburne’s techno year-end review in Pitchfork: because he’s writing for a potentially non-clubbing audience, Sherburne keeps things simple and top-level. Because he’s an fine and perceptive writer, he’s able to do th[…]

7. Mello Core – Good Feeling 
Another great transition here – the final note of ‘Something Good’ dies out, exhausted after the Saints’ techno onslaught. In floats a soothing female voice over dreamy strings: “And […]

Well our slack timing has done us a favour here. Because all things Spice are knocking around again, and we aren’t completely succumb by nostalgia to justify its position. And has history been kind to the Spice Girls, and to Who Do You Think Yo[…]

“I do talk a lot of shit sometimes.” Enrique Iglesias is sitting on the arm of a sofa, chatting with Clive and Anita. Clive is from London, Anita is from Poland, and they are engaged to be married. Clive admits he’s ‘a little […]

I have never actually heard anything by Burial before and he turns out to be one of those musicians whose stuff sounds exactly like everyone says it does. In the case of Burial that’s a good thing as everyone has been turning cartwheels over hi[…]

GWEN STEFANI – “What You Waiting For”
Tick tock tick tock – generally with any top 100 list there are some very recent records that slip into the rundown thanks to the immediate enthusiasm of the participants and stick out a b[…]