Preoccupations – Preoccupations (Jagjaguwar)
It’s my hope that, when death should come, I should embrace it. Indeed, of the scant “life goals” I’ve set for myself, that’s at the top – that I should reach a certain age where I can logically deduce (or that others can deduce for me, if my mind should crumble) that ceasing to exist […]
“This is the indie establishment”: Red Hot’s Day of the Dead
Disclaimer: I’ve probably never heard a Grateful Dead song in my life. At least not knowingly. This is an unfortunate position for me to be in, considering I am reviewing an album containing 59 covers of songs by the Grateful Dead. Just so you know. In 2009, the Red Hot Organization, fighting AIDS through pop […]
That U2 Twitter rage in full
Anyone fancy distributing this to half a billion people free of charge? Go on, you can have it. Honest. I don’t mind. ————————————————————————- Why did the U2 fan cross the road? Because it was free. How many U2 fans does it take to change a lightbulb? None. They just let it go dead and follow […]
One of the angriest reviews I ever wrote | U2, live in Philadelphia, 1992
I stand in the middle of a baseball stadium somewhere in America and feel totally lost, totally depressed, totally overwhelmed
THE TEN GREATEST ALBUMS EVER MADE
Right! I’ve thought long and hard about this, agonised and whittled down to final ten but here, at last, I think I’ve burned down to a list of solid gold excellence.
Song of the day – 597: Pins
Music like Pins comes dressed in layers. It’s chilly out there: chilly and unwelcoming, and we all need some form of uniform against the furnace of cold and disinterest.
Ten misconceptions about Collapse Board and Savages
Ten misconceptions about Collapse Board and Savages. Number one: that we care if they’re manufactured.
The Museum of Impossible Music
A choir of mutes singing in the Circular Song Annex, with Nero on fiddle.
