Rare Frequency tells us that the Muzak company has filed for bankruptcy. They also link to a more interesting New... [more]

via unmadeup, William Shaw's latest project is to hitch-hike from Land's End to John O'Groats. Well, assuming anybody still picks... [more]

My camera's having its sensor cleaned (at last), so I was left to wander the north on a perfectly cloudless... [more]

I'm not sure what's in the air at the moment, but while I'm still recovering from the holiday and... [more]

The Age reviews Ed Kuepper's new 3-CD compilation This is the Magic Mile and interviews David Sylvian about his Nine... [more]

Via my sister, Lloyd Cole has "rough mixes" of two new songs up on his website for a few weeks.... [more]

The Nylex Sign in Cremorne (Richmond) is back, after a bit of a dodgy start.... [more]

Well, it's good to see Matt Handley's finally been up to something after all those years since Pollyanna.... [more]

ACMI's Wong Kar Wai retrospective starts tomorrow, so if you'd been after a chance to catch 2046 (or, indeed, any... [more]

"We chose a play kitchen because we are always so innocent and believe in magic recipes from abroad," said museum... [more]

Ever feel like you didn't even know what was going on in yer own backyard? Me too.... [more]

We regret to inform you that Hideaki Sekiguchi, a.k.a. Billy has passed away by heart attack in the morning of... [more]

I've had a little bit of photo-taking time again, finally. On a vaguely related note, "my god it's full... [more]

Now that Google Maps does the Satellite photo thing, somebody's already started finding interesting sights so that you don't have... [more]

I don't blame him for not wanting to be bothered, but I learned something. To this day, when I have... [more]

Aunty's dig has an interview (also available as a podcast) with Our Tom about his soundtrack for The Illustrated Family... [more]

Need more 80's/90's retro? Buffalo Tom's Bill Janovitz has a new band and a new CD and the new Wedding... [more]

I probably wasn't looking hard enough, but I haven't noticed anybody talking about Hallon, a nice little app you can... [more]

I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, but there you go.... [more]

An, er, executive summary of Gang of Four, or something. They're putting the band back together, but at least they're... [more]

acb found me this, the other day. My friends Chi and Rhonda had a baby boy in the early hours... [more]

postie bikes. tom. [more]

Ecky-thump, indeed. Personally, I think I'll stick with Yorkshire Puddings.... [more]

Poking through my logs for the first time in months, I noticed a link from the Essendon Historical Society (which... [more]

Friendly northern-hemisphered neighbour Gregory's started a typewriter project this month. Personal highlight is "About Being A Writer" in part 2,... [more]

Some days you glance (by accident, mind you) at the sport section of the paper while you wait for your... [more]

via acb, somebody's webbified the first edition Melway, the beloved and preferred map of the citizens of Melbourne Town. Note... [more]

one, two, three. four. five.... [more]

If you spent your Sunday evenings in the late 1980's and early 1990's listening to a show on 3PBS-FM called... [more]

I didn't make it to last week's Buzzcocks gig (seduced by slack once more !), but Vanessa did. Was Mike... [more]

The Pharmacy Records website's had a facelift, with band bios, mp3s and photos. Nice work !... [more]

Did you ever read Geoff Ryman's 253 ? I did. So did Marcello, who elaborates on it in ways I... [more]

acb took some nice pictures of Kraftwerk last night with my camera. Good stuff. Also : Pitchfork interviews Sam Beam... [more]

Hey, The Ukranians are still going. And somebody likes that Church remix album (now that I'm buying less CDs, I... [more]

So if good-looking women aren't allowed to have brains, and just about any men aren't allowed to have brains, where... [more]

The Register: Cubase gets bought out by Pinnacle in California, but read on to see the quote from Ralf Hütter... [more]

Marty Willson-Piper's doing a gig tonight at the Corner, which I might drag myself to if I can make it... [more]

I found out about my new fame a day too late, 'cause I spent all yesterday having a ball at... [more]

Graham has a new track up, which reminds me a fair bit of an old Bill Leeb (of Front Line... [more]

Typographica is, as usual, full of handy and informative links - if only I had more time for all of... [more]

Scrumptious new fonts (Baskerville 1757, Montrachet and Monteverdi) by Lars Bergquist at Fountain. If only I had a use for... [more]

I don't have much to contribute to the discussion of sleeplessness. It happens to me occasionally, but not with a... [more]

Next time somebody gives me shit about my shirt collection, I'll just point them at this. He's http://troubled-diva.blogspot.com/2002_11_24_troubled-diva_archive.html#85726722">still going. Maybe... [more]

Well, since everybody's been linking to it all week I finally pulled down the new Cat Power mp3. Nice. It... [more]

Graham wants to do another list, this time of the best australiany stuff from the 80's. I've done a quick... [more]

life imitates film, more or less.... [more]

I happened to be wandering through Borders when Dave Graney, Clare Moore and Bill Miller were setting up for... [more]

It's odd to be noticed as a Gill Sans user, as opposed to something else. I don't own a Mac... [more]

So you thought Johnny Cash was, uh, pushing the envelope by covering Will Oldham and Nick Cave (or even U2)... [more]

Have a good trip, acb - take some photos and see some bands for the rest of us...... [more]

Having come across the location of the beta Flash 6 player for Linux, I wandered off to the Flash 6-only... [more]

Good to see RAN ramping up production, lately : Graham on Peter Gabriel's Up : I've been a marginal PG... [more]

It's good to see a bit more content than usual from my original web heroine Miss Z, at the moment.... [more]

Alex has revitalized and moved to close your eyes. Welcome back ! The Buzzcocks thing made interesting reading...... [more]

I'm looking forward to this new Luna EP, even if I've already got Neon Lights - they'd already covered it... [more]

Pitchfork on the new compilation of the The stuff, bemoaning the crappy 12-inch mixes instead of actual rarities : The... [more]

The Liars are weird like that -- they fake you out, they deceive you, they puzzle the shit out of... [more]

When somebody has a Good Idea, people rush to implement and reimplmement it under every platform known to man -... [more]

I've been knee deep in evaluation PCs (funny little shiny things they are, too) and laptops, configuring switches to send... [more]

soup, the group blog I've setup with some old friends, seems to be gathering momentum (as well as a real... [more]

Well. Wasn't that a small turnout ? 8 people in total (and not quite all at the same time) compared... [more]

acb reviews the new Ninety Nine album, which I'll be buying out curiosity sometime real soon now - will this... [more]

I've been so busy that I still haven't managed to listen to the new Primal Scream album (which I didn't... [more]

Splendid covers the new Barry Adamson release. Sleater-Kinney - fantastic or just ok ? Meanwhile, I finally remembered to download... [more]

From both the official and unofficial sites, it seems there's a follow-on to The Church's After Everything Now This :... [more]

Pitchfork sez that Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted (the one that started me off on them) has been reissued, too. When... [more]

Right. I caught Josh Rouse last night (pics up this evening, hopefully), and the blog meetup the night before (as... [more]

Angry Robot's latest review reminds me of the advice given in the booklet of each Pulp CD - "please do... [more]

NATN reviews both new Frank Black and the Catholics albums (one, two). I'm not expecting much (certainly the last release... [more]

Bill's hacked up some nice Lisp to let you post to Movable Type from Emacs, which conveniently saves me from... [more]

via, Graham, this Hello Kitty USB hub reminds me of the whole Sanrio-saturation thing in Singapore. All the time I... [more]

Goodbye Georgia, Trebuchet MS, et al. Microsoft's core web fonts are no longer available. Good riddance, Comic Sans.... [more]

Into this breach flies Archer Prewitt, veteran of the defunct Coctails and the MIA Sea and Cake, and possessor of... [more]

There's a lot of Guided by Voices and related albums out there. Not sure where to start ? Try this... [more]

More nice surprises - Drawer B reviews Cinerama's third album, Torino, which the reviewer suggests may win back some of... [more]

Pitchfork rounds up some of the rare non-album Songs: Ohia releases. I was just listening to Axess & Ace on... [more]

Even /. is talking about Haruki Murakami now. I remember reading how he left Japan when he couldn't cope with... [more]

Salon pitches in on Mission of Burma's past and present, this time.... [more]

Namedropped at least as much as Karlheinz Stockhausen, it was only a matter of time before John Cage got in... [more]

They might not be able to spell his name, but the Cornish Arms' website artist bio area now has a... [more]

I've been good and haven't bought any CDs this weekend (in an e-mail a little earlier, I claimed I hadn't... [more]

I forgot to mention this the other day when I was going on about The Last Record Store, but following... [more]

Another review, this time from NATN, of Mekons / Waco Brothers / etc. Welsh wonder-dude Jon Langford's Pine Valley Cosmonauts... [more]

There's a track off the new Guided By Voices album up at epitonic, as well as some new and old... [more]

...there's now also a London Tube bloggers map (cf. the NYC subway one, the other day), via guideblog.... [more]

David Bowie covering a song by The Pixies ? I never thought I'd see the day. Still, I never thought... [more]

Idly poking around at stuff, I found the Neil Halstead area at 4AD. I'm not entirely sure what I'd do... [more]

I have grand plans to buy the entire "early" Pere Ubu catalogue in one fell swoop one of these days,... [more]

speaking of maps, here's a fairly nifty one.... [more]

Resident shiny new guitar owning vinyl idolizer Vanessa took some photos the other night. Unfortunately I've no idea of the... [more]

it's not entirely true, honest. I get coffee there every morning, but I only manage to pop in for lunch... [more]

I hadn't ever really heard anything particularly good about Damon and Naomi (from friends, people in CD shops, etc), until... [more]

Steve Albini talks about and to Mission of Burma (via grossoutart). I haven't even begun to penetrate the VU boxed... [more]

A few things I spotted over the weekend : PTTL lists the fanboy-voted Top 50 Robert Pollard songs. I'll have... [more]

I've been a bit slack with my linkage, so : PopMatters reviews Teenage Fanclub's Howdy, which didn't even get a... [more]

Timmy gets on a Red House Painters kick. Intrepid BlogHunter Alex digs up some more interesting reading (although all that... [more]

The Onion Does It AgainTM - 37 record store clerks feared dead in Yo La Tengo concert disaster. "These people... [more]

Once every couple of weeks I remember to go and poke a stick at my web stats, to see if... [more]

...a couple of reviews of things I'm curious about : A slightly over the top review of Wilco's almost-lost-album, Yankee... [more]

A couple of other reviews of things that have been on my mind, and hence an attempt to inject a... [more]

New Scientist says : A new way of making silicon explode could mean anyone trying to use a stolen laptop... [more]

We used to drive past this place all the time when I was a kid, while Dad drove to Bacchus... [more]

Will Oldham's playing next weekend, and just after finding that interview at The Age, I also found a rather interesting... [more]