Lester Bangs and Paul Morley : Let It Blurt and Nothing: You could very well do worse.[…]

Pitchfork reviews the new Future Bible Heroes EP. It’s a fair review and well written, though as often with Pitchfork it’s the little asides that grate or beg expansion: “It’s extremely difficult to write a meaningful synth-po[…]

Thanks to Martin, who has sent me several excellent links over the last week (I’m working through them!), and thanks also to moreover.com, you’ll now find a pop music headlines section in the right-hand column for handy news updates. We&#[…]

Gentleman Jim: “Here were songs of love, loss and yearning by cult artists such as the Church, the Go Betweens and Ed Kuepper, songs that had entered the national psyche, sung by an old-style crooner enjoying a Terry Callier-like renaissance. &[…]

Ironminds: The Savior Is Coming Ironminds is by far the worst rockzine online. Every piece has about a paragraph of opinion puffed into four pages of tiresome off-the-shelf ‘attitude’. They have by and large wretchedly conservative tastes[…]

I’ve been getting a lot of hits from mailing lists and fan pages this week. Tanya’s rabid onslaught on Pulp attracted the attention of the band’s news site, and my rather gentler Belle And Seb piece has sparked some gratifyingly int[…]

LOUISE – 2 Faced
Louise is a fixture in the FHM Sexiest Woman In The World polls. I am a twentysomething man. Case closed, thinks the grumpy woman at the Our Price till, and I feel like I’m buying a stroke mag instead of the breeziest gir[…]

The hip-hop pornographer: it’s almost worth skipping straight to page 2 of Salon‘s piece on the new little Li’l Kim album, which is where discussion of the demerits of a pro-porn position gives way to discussion of the record itself[…]

Modern Humorist – The Britney Papers “Ride young Valkyrie! Ride! – ‘Camille Paglia’s letter to Britney is the funniest of Modern Humorist’s five parodies, though it’s still not all that funny.[…]

Horton Jupiter of the very wonderful They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them) asks me to tell you about a party coming up this Saturday in Stoke Newington, a fantastical celebration at which the band will be performing, and he ominously adds that it mig[…]