I’m moving house, starting tomorrow: this means few or no posts here from me, maybe for several days. If the rest of the team want to take up the slack, that would be great and we’ll all have something new to read. Otherwise you might wan[…]

The Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group is back up, as part of the continued restoration of freakytrigger.com. Now with actual links on the contributors’ page! And I’ll take this as an opportunity to remind people that the deadline for b[…]

rockcritics.com has a new look and new features including a guestbook and LISTS LISTS LISTS. You should go there every week, I think.
And speaking of lists, I don’t soundtrack my life – at least not consciously. But on red letter days (or[…]

What I Listened To today; where. Abridged. In order:
1. DR DRE – “Lil Ghetto Boy”; on the bus there.
2. SPICE GIRLS – “Holler”; in HMV.
3. BLACK STAR/TALIB KWELI – ?; in a shop (note: this could have been any[…]

What I Listened To when I left my job. In order:
1. BLUR – “To The End”
2. THIEVES – “Unworthy” (“Don’t tell me I should try and GET SOME SLEEP….”)
3. MADONNA – “Like A Prayer&#8[…]

Our Lady of Sorrows: long piece on Billie Holiday. Looks interesting.[…]

My mind’s elsewhere today but for the sake of content (c’mon team) here are Guardian reviews of the Spice Girls (bad) and Fatboy Slim (worse). I can’t imagine the critics are too far wrong in either case.[…]

The Cultural Hulk: Al picks up the mouse and draws once again.[…]

I HATE MUSIC: freakytrigger.com is gradually getting back to working order and the first thing I restored is Tanya’s site (sans archives, sadly, for the moment). There’s nothing new there, because I’ve not told Tanya yet that she ca[…]

Here is Bob Stanley talking about Canada’s attempt to keep Eminem out of the country: he uses it as an opportunity to write about pop and outrage, and the history of pop being offensive. This is how we talk about offensiveness now: a light, jad[…]