I drifted away – the Guardian reviews the Festival Of Drifting. The mysterious asterisk next to the name of the event is actually the rating out of a possible five stars; one star, the paper tells me, means “terrible”. Is it just me[…]

1. Wookie – “Battle” (MP3, forthcoming single)
Underground soulful 2-step ex-Soul II Soul man UK Garage. Would be big except for the fact that I’ve not heard it on the radio yet. Perhaps the Dreem Team are playing it? Large se[…]

Anyway, here goes…
Napster: The Computing Equivalent Of Unsafe Sex – and so the backlash continues. A band named the Tabloids (nope, me neither) have launched a site named StopNapster.com with the intention of spearheading guerilla tactic[…]

Have you heard this, josh? if not, you should coax tom into making you a copy.
For me, it’s quite revelatory: if i was jason pierce, i’d be majorly pissed off at the writers of “can’t help falling in love” for nixing th[…]

Both songs are in waltz time (3/4, or at least 6/8, but close enough) – but it took me until this week to realize it (typical). Any odd time signature is a funny thing – for whatever reason, we’re so accustomed to 4/4 and similarly […]

Enough intellectualism! On a far more interesting note, I find on Teletext today (Channel 4 p141 for anyone who’s interested) that your favourite crossover R&B/UK garage star Craig David is the subject of a bidding war between two US majors[…]

“One of my cymbal patterns is more rebellious than their entire recorded output, which is just a waste of plastic” – Liam Howlett of the Prodigy on Chumbawamba.
Fred asked a few months ago what people felt was the reason that they l[…]

Hi, my name is fred. as many of you know, i have my own blog called steal this blog! while tom’s off on holiday, he asked me to fill-in for him. as such, i’ll promise to try to stay on the topic of music, “try” being the opera[…]

“Pitchfork Review:” us|against|them. OK, so (almost) nobody entered uat’s contest. Who cares, the winning entry is fantastic (scroll down a bit, there you go). I’m not even sure the reviewer being toasted didn’t secretly[…]

I like sweets and the KLF. I relax by listening to classic hip hop records from 1983 and watching Only Fools And Horses. On a bad day I may rate Toytown Techno as possibly the fourth greatest musical genre of all time. On other days I may listen to s[…]