We know what you played this summer: assorted pop stars and other musical bods pick their favourite tunes (and choons) of the Summer. Daphne And Celeste have the best taste.[…]

Kid A: “Dear Sir, please cancel my subscription to Freaky Trigger forthwith. First you review Stephin Merritt’s new record unfavourably and now you give a lukewarm but reasonably charitable review to an album by Radiohead??? What is your […]

Radiohead – Kid A 
I’ve enjoyed Kid A most when the office is empty and it’s just me and the striplights and the screen, too late in the evening. At quiet times like those I’ve been only too happy to indulge it – in fact I’ve found i[…]

Western Homes returns (sort of).[…]

The Magnetic Fields at missprint.org: here are photos of the MF gig I went to, seeing as I dont have time for anything more discursive today, plus everything is going crazy ape outside with a fuel blockade. Anyway, this comes from Starry Vs The Baddi[…]

Go-Betweens: The Friends of Rachel Worth: Pitchfork Review: and another review, from Meg Zamula, one of Pitchfork’s unsung but consistently good new writers. She even passes the Cobain/Verlaine test.[…]

Promo Napster Horror: “when records begin to show up a month ahead of their release dates, entire marketing campaigns can be thrown off track”. Gasp! Sob! The article (found via Josh Blog) also suggests that the Radiohead album has found […]

MC Hawking’s Crib: kind of amusing.[…]

Collective weblog Metafilter has a go at teen pop. Whenever I start feeling that FT is pointless, unoriginal and samey, it’s nice to have a read of stuff like this to remind myself how comparatively fucked most musical commentary is.[…]

Bloody Hell, It’s Serge Gainsbourg!: oh, those seductive Frenchmen. (via Scrubbles).[…]