Okay, the reason why Gaddafi: A Living Myth was not called Gaddafi: The Opera hits you almost straight away in the production. It is not the heavy beats, samples and muezzin sampling score – you could still have a libretto over that. It is the[…]

Ed: here’s Anthony’s track-by-track commentary for his podcast
Walk on By — Dionne Warwick
Crying in the street when one sees an ex doesn’t seem to be the best example of control, but how she lays ground rules here, how she sings […]

vote in the sukrat wiretapper poll[…]

Freakytrigger has been quiet over the last few days. This can pretty much be put down to the marriage of our main technical support and indispensable chief Admin bloke Alan Trewartha and his stunning bride Emma Hamilton. This means that the site will[…]

Nobody volunteered to write about this record, so it falls to yr humble pop editor. Which is a bit of a shame, because it turns out I don’t like it much. (more…)[…]

lord sukrat’s first experiment in limited democracy: hideous racket or hideous racket BUT IN A GOOD WAY — YOU DECIDE[…]

(but only when yr MUM’S GONE OUT)[…]

moment by moment, what’s on r&r radio USA: and pop and soul and latin and…
(via the nipper) (i shd add it causes my computer to go ENTIRELY SLOW but it is hypnotic and so what)[…]

And so we continue Paris Hilton week here on FT with the initially a little bit amusing story that Banksy has doctored 500 Paris Hilton CD’s and slipped them surreptitiously into a number of major record stores in the country. Having slipped in[…]

I feel a duty to say something about Channel 5’s Battle Of The Popstars programme, a real-time tournament to find “the nation’s favourite pop star” AKA an attempt by Five to find the most lucrative possible format to separate […]