Tangents - 2002
All About Hope
Marino Guida with a few words for a forgotten hero, Elmo Hope
Finders Keepers
Alistair Fitchett on finding photographs
Giving Up the Ghost
William Crain's Top 10 Suicide Songs
Looking for The Phantom Lady
Alistair Fitchett on recent listening
Abompabompbomp
John Carney on his two songs of the year
Electronico
Jonathan Donaldson muses on Lounge at the Chimney Pavilion
History Repeating
Matt Bryden on Donna Tartt's The Little Friend
Heavy words are so lightly thrown...
Tim Footman on new books about The Ramones and The Smiths
Shipp Shapes
Marino Guida finds himself in a Blue corner with Matthew Shipp
Yet More Leisure Options
Robin Tomens on Bad Company, The Opus, Coltrane and N*E*R*D, amongst others
Paranoid Polaroids
Dee Dee asks himself: "Why are you dancing when you could be alone?"
96 Tears
Tim Footman remembers the C96 compilation. Well someone had to...
You're Too Hip, Baby
Stan Kenton returns, James Blood Ulmer scores. Marino Guida explains all.
Embraceable You?
William Crain on the pleasures of the oddities in record collections
Everyone's a cowboy now
John Carney on Mary Margaret O'Hara's Miss America
A Love Supreme
Paul Donnely on Ashley Kahn's book about the creation Of John Coltrane's classic clbum
I wonder why the other kids didn't like me
Alistair Fitchett on comic books by Seth, Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware
Is This Uncool?
Alistair Fitchett on a couple of music books
Sex Toy Story
Dee Dee on Grant Morrison's Filth
"The Jewel In The Crown Of New York City's Skyline"
Rupert Loydell on a new book about the Chrysler Building
J'Aime Lispector
Alistair Fitchett explains why you should too
Striving For The Lazy Perfection
Alistair Fitchett remembers The Orchids
More Leisure Options
Robin Tomens on recent listening
R Is For Razorcuts
Alistair Fitchett on the new Matinee retrospective
Actors aren't indie bands
Mark Morris on the Winona Ryder backlash
Unique and Timeless
Paul Donnelly on Faust's Patchwork and First Steps compilation
Whiskers on Koshkas and Warm Woolen Mittens
William Crain gets all positive on us
The Dancehall of Your Dreams
John Carney on Subway Sect's Sansend
Just Great Songs and Voices
Paul Donnelly on Hem, Kate Rusby and Dick Gaughan
Struggle and Salvation
John Carney says Thank God for Eddie and Ernie
Genius In The Crowd Mike Morris on Keith Levene
Going Round In Circles
Rupert Loydell on recent reading, watching and listening, November 2002
Preparing To Swoon
Alistair Fitchett on recent listening
Everybody's a fucking genius these days
William Crain gets irate
Catching Up With The Past
Paul Donnely on Matching Mole and Back Door
C86
Alistair Fitchett reflects on an old NME tape
You Couldn't Make It Up
John Carney on Ruth Copeland
Map Events
William Crain revists Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted
Updates; Tiger Style
Jonathan Donaldson on American Anaolg Set remixes
Champions of the fucking world
Why Alistair Fitchett can't stop listening to ballboy
Science Lessons
A decade on, John Carney revisits A Word of Science by Nightmares On Wax
Dancing On The Asylum Ceiling
Alistair Fitchett on two Ludus reissues
One person's rubbish...
Mark Morris on what you can find in the streets these days
Grey Skies Blue
Alistair Fitchett on three Matinee releases
Spit & Polish
Rupert Loydell on Damien Hirst, Peter Gabriel and Ryan Adams
Secondhand Nostalgia
Rupert Loydell on Barney Hoskyns, Mick Farren and The Velvet Underground
A Warm and Yeasty Corner
Jonathan Donaldson on Appendix Out's offering of covers
Pander! Panda! Panzer!
Matt Bryden on Mark E Smith's spoken word album
Love With A Passion Called Hate
Alistair Fitchett on the new Delgados album
American Rock
Alistair Fitchett on some recent listening
On the Road with Bob Dylan
Matt Bryden on the reissue of the classic Larry 'Ratso' Sloman book
Fly Into The Mystery
William Crain on the lasting allure of Felt
Saturday Night Frakture
Paul Donnelly on an Evening of Improvisations from Swung Dash and Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Phil Gibbs
Count Me In On This One!
Alistair Fitchett on Richard Buckner's Impasse
Cop That, Col!
Alistair Fitchett on David Shrigley and the 2003 Redstone Diary
Now and Then and Now Again
Alistair Fitchett on recent reading
These Things Matter
Alistair Fitchett on The Russian Futurists, Butterflies of Love and Chickfactor
Music For The Eyes
Paul Donnelly on Ketil Bjornstad's Before The Light
Considerably cooler than you...
Tim Footman's ruminations on self-worth, credibility, cover-mounted reggae CDs and Atomic Kitten
Matt Bryden
reviews InsomniaIt's so cold in Alaska
Logic In The Square World
Robin Tomens on, amongst other things, paring down his record collection
Dylan's Metal Machine Music
William Crain casts an eye over Self Portrait
Notes of Joy and Exile
Paul Donnelly on The Blue Notes' Township Bop
Video Drone
Dee Dee MacGowan zones out with MTV
Reinventing The Wheel
Alistair Fitchett on books by Jessica Helfland and David Attwood
Waste of Paint?
Alistair Fitchett listens to Bright Eyes
Made To Make Your Spine Tingle
Alistair Fitchett on St Etienne, Marc Carroll, Bilge Water, Parasol and Flotation Toy Warning
Traditional and Modern
Paul Donnelly on new albums by Linda Thompson and Bill Jones
Singles Going Steady
Alistair Fitchett reviews recent single offerings
Action Time Vision
Alistair Fitchett on Rolled Gold by The Action
Dodging Ian McEwan
Rupert Loydell on his holiday reading, Summer 2002
Big Ideas
Carrie McMillan on Phaidon's Cyber_Reader
News From Norway
Music By People & Their Gadgets by Paul Donnelly
Something To Believe
Alistair Fitchett rambles on about St Etienne, the Heavenly label and assorted early '90s oddities
Soft Rock, Hard Place
James Nice admits to a soft spot for the 'Baker Street' troubador
Shafts Of Light
Dee Dee MacGowan listens to Silver Mount Zion
The Difference
Alistair Fitchett catches up with the novels of Charles Willeford
Garlands of Razor-Wire and Poppies
Alistair Fitchett on Cath Carroll, Ultramarine, Cody and Fosca
File Under 'World'
Paul Donnely on two recent releases by Rachid Taha and Bjorkenheim/Haker Flaten/Nilssen-Love
God's Busker (I Wish You'd Believe Me)
Tim Footman with a memory of the wondrous Wylie
Facelifts and Nosejobs
Paul Donnelly on Michael Hurley, Delta Blues and Soft Machine
1970's Late Afternoon William Crain on childhood and The Clientele
Close To Perfection
Alistair Fitchett on some Sundazed releases
The Most Wonderfulest Thing
Alistair Fitchett on some recent listening, July 2002
Dreamland: New Places To Go
Rupert Loydell's
Recent Listening, June 2002
So Is It There or Not?
Dee Dee McGowan looks through smoke and mirrors at the media
Cease To Exist
William Crain on Sonic Youth
It's Not A Whistle, It's A Signal
Dee Dee McGowan decides not to throw out Tigertown Pictures by Comet Gain
The Last Of The Steam Powered Trains
Alistair Fitchett on July Skies
The Dark Stage Paul Donnelly on Tom Waits' Blood Money
Dope and Glory Paul Donnelly on Reefer Songs from the Thirties & Forties
The Story Of Three Circles
Robin Tomens on DJ Shadow and Sub Pop's 'anthology of noise'
It Ain't Necessarily So
Rupert Loydell on English Experimantal music and a couple of music books
Bill Drummond Said
Alistair Fitchett buys 1/20,000th of a Richard Long artwork. Or does he?
Shoegazing For Jesus
Tim Footman explains all...
From the Depths of Hell
William Crain on 'Beat Bop' by K-Rob and Rammellzee
As Important As It Is Irrelevant
Alistair Fitchett on The Shins, Kinks, Josef K, Ludus and Bob Mould
Quiet Suburban Dreams
Alistair Fitchett on July Skies, Golden Rough, Darren Hanlon and Simpatico
I Don't Want to be Happy
Marino Guida with a noir-western, soundtrack by the Kinks and Swell
The Human Male is Unnecessary
Clare Sharkey asks whether Severino Antinori can really produce a human clone
Collecting Obsessions
Alistair Fitchett on books by Speck and LOT/EK
Shave Your Head
Alistair Fitchett remembers Stockholm Monsters and Happy Mondays
24 Hour Party People
Three reviews of the Factory Story movie
West of Rome
Marino Guida with more jazz vibes at the end of another season
Some Trains In England And America
Rupert Loydell on, well, some trains in England and America
California Is Just Over The Horizon Alistair Fitchett on The Millennium and their associated off-shoots
Seeing Sound
Alistair Fitchett reviews Sonic Graphics
Get Your Kicks...
Alistair Fitchett on The Final Cut - Route 66, Stencil Graffiti and the Little Book of Design Classics
Crossing Off Names In Notebooks
Alistair Fitchett on some recent reading
Six Good Reasons To Hate Tony
Mike Morris on Mr Blair
Lights in my brain
Daniel Williams on Boards of Canada
Pop Art Politicians
William Crain on the first Love album
There For The Duration
Alistair Fitchett listens to the Lucksmiths
Shared Obsessions
Current listening and recent reading, April 2002
The Cenotaph of the Bike Shed
James Nice logs on at Friends Reunited
Frigidaire-Funk
Michael Layne Heath on In The Beginning There Was Rhythm
Early
Alistair Fitchett on the new A Certain Ratio compilation on Soul Jazz
Don't Blink
Alistair Fitchett reviews some 7" singles
Travelling Without Motion
Alistair Fitchett on books by Tomato
Between Delta And Delaware
Kee Leng on why he can't stop listening to an Airport Girl song
punk rock changed my life, kinda
William Crain on Black Flag Live in Houston, back in 1985
Can Susan Sontag elucidate the offside rule?
Mark Morris on BBC Four and Footballers' Wives
Some Old Time Travelling Paul Donnely on The Be Good Tanyas' Blue Horse
You don't have to be beautiful, to be beautiful
An appreciation of Mark E. Smith by William Crain
Is a dish best served with mint sauce Daniel Williams on Lambchop
Another New York
Rupert Loydell on The Blank Generation and the Twin Towers Remembered
If Earth Has Life On It
or Brian, Happy At Last:
Michael Layne Heath's overview of the Beach Boys in the Seventies
How Pop Is that?
Alistair Fitchett remembers the Shop Assistants
Shopping Therapy
Alistair Fitchett buys CDs by Colourbox, Teardrop Explodes, Terry Hall, Clinic and Slumber Party
For All The Great Explorers
Kevin Pearce bids farwell
Shot By Both Sides
Alistair Fitchett on Echo and the Bunnymen and Buzzkunst
Mr Zen Remains Seated
Kelly Joe Phelps : In Concert & on ïBeggar's Oil' by Paul Donnelly
Bored and Dumb? Alistair Fitchett at the Andy Warhol retrospective
The Ugly Sound Your Past Makes William Crain on memories and music
On Expecting Too Much Mike Morris on what we expect of our artists
Where To Put The Past? Dee Dee McGowan puts a case for living taxidermy
The Story Of The Blues
Alistair Fitchett on a new Phaidon published retrospective of photographer Martin Parr.
Better Late Than Never
Rupert Loydell reconsiders The Sound
Wandering With W.G. Sebald Bob Garlitz on the late, great author
The Isis Anthology
Matt Bryden on a new Bob Dylan book
Translating Faust Paul Donnelly on Freispiel : Ravvivando Remixes
"Get Out of My Face and I'll Play Your Favorite Song"
or Brianjonestown Massacre Alive in Austin by William Crain
Talk About The Past
Alistair Fitchett on recent LTM reissues by The Wake
Your Past is at Your Shoulder Alistair Fitchett on
James Sallis and Jason Flores-Williams' Last Stand of Mr America
California Dreaming: Cold Blue Music
Rupert Loydell on some recent listening
Making the Grade
Alistair Fitchett on albums by Overflower and The Soft Set
Comforting Ho-Hum William Crane sinks back and listens to Grand Funk Live Album
Add Some Music To Your Day
Alistair Fitchett discovers the world was right about the Beach Boys all along
Not Quite Right Rupert Loydell on Mary George of Allnorthover and In The Beginning There Was Rhythm
Recognize I'm a Fool
William Crain on The Old Dirty Bastard as the Holy Fool
Rabid Curiosity
Alistair Fitchett on Friends Again, Orchids, Mountain Goats and White Stripes
Aches, Pains and Shivers
Robin Tomens reviews three albums to cheer up the moping music junkies
Heroes Wobble But They Don't Fall Down Kevin Pearce on Jah Wobble and a new Soul Jazz compilation
styrofoam, clingfilm and tinfoil Alistair Fitchett on Fugu
Anything, Anytime, Anywhere
Rupert Loydell on the Bruce Cockburn Collection
Thank You For Your Truth
Ruvi Simmons on Johnny Cash's 1990's recordings
Notebooks out, bookworms Graham Coleman is very disappointed with
novelists who make clumsy and inaccurate pop
references
Sounds Pretty Good To Me
Alistair Fitchett on recent listening by Freezepop, Lifestyle, Aerospace, Flare and Dreamy records
I just challenge anyone to listen to them and not cry
Kevin Pearce on Honey Cone, Brigitte Fontaine, Thomas Leer, The Free Design and A.R. Kane
Reflections of a Golden Eye
Ruvi Simmons on the films of John Huston
Of Cerberus and Saint Mugging Squirrels
Dickon Edwards on Alice In The Underground by Scarlet's Well
Getting To The Point Rupert Loydell on the new album by Cornelius
Poetry and All That Jazz Rachel Stevenson on Phillip Larkin
I Won't Freak Out This Time
Jake McGee interviews satanstompingcaterpillars
Like Nothing But Soul
Alistair Fitchett re-discovers Jazz with Robin Tomens and Roy DeCarava
Truth or Consequences
Alistair Fitchett on recent collections of photographs by Robert Capa and Nick Waplington
The Manual Of A Jazz Fan
Paul Donnelly reviews Robin Tomens' Points Of Departure
That Nag, Nag, Nag-ing Feeling
Rupert Loydell on the real Cabaret Voltaire
What Happened When Progrock Left To Make A New Home Far Away Paul Donnely investigates new releases by DFA and Finisterre
The Woman Who Knew Best Mike Morris on Mary Whitehouse
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
Kevin Pearce with a story of shadows, ghosts and flowers
Sunlight on the snow
Alistair Fitchett on recent Matinee label recordings
Better Late Than Never
Rupert Loydell on his recent reading, December 2001
Troubadours and Dronemasters
Rupert Loydell on his recent listening, December 2001
I Can Only Give You Everything Alistair Fitchett on Lester Bangs' Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Still Turning The Pages Alistair Fitchett on recent reading
A City Constructed By A Saxophone Paul Donnelly on Simon Yarde's Manhattan Suite
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