Ironminds: The Price is Wrong: Good grief! Mike was right and this is a really good article in Ironminds. I’ve very little to add, really – it’s a thoughtful piece on collector overpricing, and the implications of eBay and Napster f[…]

THE GO-BETWEENS – “Going Blind”
The Go-Betweens set the gold standard for sensitivity coupled with intelligence coupled with fearsomely good tunes, and in doing so I’m sure ruined many a young life: out in the real world there[…]

It’s been a while since I linked to Dancing About Architecture, which is odd since they’ve been on somewhat of a roll recently, and this week sees editor Rob Brookman write a handy one-page primer on African pop music. Other people might […]

diskant: fantastic fanzines reviewed: even though I never got round to doing one in print (too messy on the fingers, my dears), I’ve got a vast soft spot for fanzines. I’ve no idea how old these reviews are, so some of the addresses may b[…]

The 100 Best Singles of the 1980s: it’s the sincerest form of flattery, and I am sincerely flattered – Robin Carmody, sick of my constant failed promises of an 80s singles list (does anyone really need to know what I think about Frankie G[…]

It’s a Saturday, nobody’s reading, what better time for some serious navel-gazing?
The Freaky Trigger Readership Survey: Results
First of all thankyou to anyone who voted in this. The results, admittedly on a self-selecting sample, were h[…]

SINK: since Mike has stumbled upon it I suppose this particular cat can be debagged. Sink is a weblog by Tim Hopkins, the drinking man’s music fan, which exists as a forum for him to disagree with all the music zines he reads. It’s honest[…]

Liner Notes Of The Gods…Again!: the nonsense keeps on coming, care of Kerplink.[…]

Eminem’s Homepage: courtesy of (who else?) PopJustice.[…]

Pitchfork puts the case against Moby and does so with aplomb and a side dish of good old-fashioned techno snobbery (“One can’t even imagine Jeff Mills or Richie Hawtin spinning a Moby 12″!”). Paul Cooper is the most intelligen[…]