Jesus Christ That Was Fucking Boring

Fuck me, I’m glad that’s over with. Did you find that as dull as I did? Four consecutive posts about major bands on major labels that you could all just as easily have read about in Q Magazine. I even liked the Elbow and REM albums, but I still felt slightly dirty [...]

R.E.M. - Accelerate

Well, it really is mainstream indie rock week so far on Song, by Toad isn’t it? The Raconteurs, Supergrass, Elbow… crikey anyone would think I’d lost what little edge I ever had.
Well one of the reasons for this is because after last year’s debacle for major releases, some of the mainstream stuff this year [...]

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

After all the hoo-ha surrounding the helter-skelter release of this album and the refusal to allow reviewers to have advance copies and all of that gubbins has died down, I think we can now safely address the question of whether or not it is actually any good without tripping over wordy Music 2.0 chatter at [...]