Podiums don’t figure much in the world of pop, meaning that Cate Le Bon is being denied her rightful position. Awarding points based on...

Pick up a mood thermometer and you’ll see that coolness is just couple of degrees from frigidity. Warmth or fire seems suddenly...

Discovering the current existence of an information source called The Face was this week’s blog research surprise. One of those soothing...

‘There’s not enough basslines in techno,’ says Neil Landstrumm, and he should know, he’s been doing techno for decades, not to mention...

An acquired taste was a concept I struggled with as a child. Once I’d got my head round the meaning, I had severe doubts about the wisdom...

Familiarity is said to breed contempt, but a lot of things get said, and then along come people like Cleo Sol, tearing up books of...

Danger and expense, expense and danger, danger and expense. These things comfortably head the list of space travel’s main obstacles....

“It’s one of those old films, from the eighties or something.” Teaching English to teenagers sometimes exposes me to utterances like...

Are bonkers blasts of unruly energy ever enough? Even if they only last 1 minute and 40 seconds? Yes, obviously. Look at the Ramones,...

While Drug Chug has been grabbing all the headlines, the less celebrated genre Balearic Dub Chug has had to fight hard for even a single...

“Anything that bugged either of us, we went back and ironed it out.” That´s a quote from audiobooks multi-instrumentalist, David Wrench,...

The Abba chapter in Bon Stanley´s pop encyclopedia, Yeah Yeah Yeah, irked me a little because the root of their greatness gets pinned...

Those with a penchant for prudence might be alarmed by the title of this week’s track, as it evokes hazardous speeds for ring road...

Listening to Woody Guthrie wasn´t a huge craze in the eighties but Billy Bragg did it, so how does it feel now, when he listens to...

Really getting to invent a genre, that would be a sign of any Blogger’s standing. I kind of tried by mentioning Nightbus a few times, but...

Unlike those old-fashioned newspapers that you occasionally hear people reminiscing about, Blogs are not much known for providing Massive...

It's hard not to warm to BC Camplight when you read quotes like these in his interviews, So many times I’ve written a perfectly gorgeous...

Good grouping is one of those darts expressions that hasn’t really broken though into pop terminology. It refers to 3 tidily arranged...

This morning a friend sent me a message about Greentea Peng and there was a very brief exchange about whether it was her real name. I...

The concept of an excuse being good obviously doesn’t refer to its quality as entertainment, hence the disdain that’s directed at the...