You know the score

Son vaults ahead of father by joining the select grouping of music critics who have had diss songs aimed at them by aggrieved musicians.  

In this case, the wounded ones rather disingenuously claim that  "this song is about the modern American music critic, not about one single person, and any resemblance between the characters in this video and any persons, living or dead, is their own problem" - oh yeah, pull the other one, you start the video with screenshots of the measly score he gave your record. 

(Funnily enough I rather enjoyed the Callahan & Witscher record Think Differently). 

Still waiting for an inverted-tribute like this to happen to me, although I did get gently piss-took in this Saint Etienne advertisement, which delighted me (although I'd still rather have been in a Saint Et song like Joe Dilworth and Simon Price were)

Here's some new Kieran - a piece for Mixed Feelings on "Rollywood"  - TV soap operas and full-length movies made using Roblox.

I had great fun chatting with the Rock's Backpages crew - Barney Hoskyns, Mark Pringle, Jasper Murison-Bowie - for this week's RBP Podcast.  We talked about the UK music press and my time on Melody Maker, about Bob Stanley and Saint Etienne's Foxbase Alpha, about Heaven 17's Penthouse and Pavement and a whole bunch of other things including the late Lee Perry and the late Charlie Watts.  

This week at Rock's Backpages, there's also a spotlight on some of my archival pieces, including a review of the 1987 Monsters of Rock Castle Donington festival, an appreciation of Joy Division based around the film Control, and "Worth Their Wait", a tribute to the print music press of yesteryear,  There's also a 1991 piece of mine on Saint Etienne as part of their St Et spotlight, linked to their new album I've Been Trying To Tell You. 

They also have a piece on mine of roots and dub reggae as part of their Lee Perry tribute.