Flying high … the Stool Pigeon’s existence is a cause for celebration Does anybody out there like the idea of a music paper that is equally comfortable pontificating about Nas, Roky Erickson, Marc Almond and Holy Fuck, has the reassuringly newsprint-y feel of Melody Maker in the late 70s, and doesn’t actually cost any money [...]

Our guest reviewers discuss glo-fi and why Pitchfork’s not as good as it used to be. Photograph: Danilo Krstanovic/Reuters The Divine Comedy – I LikeHitchcock taught us well. While our more murderous cousins were trained to flock-attack actors to death, we – the crack music criticism squadron – were indoctrinated with the need to find, [...]

Another excellent episode . . . The Hospital, Channel 4. Photograph: Channel 4 I have always agreed with Victoria Wood that I wouldn’t be an adolescent again if you bumped my pocket money up to three and six. After viewing the first episode of The Hospital (Channel 4) last night, which looked at the £1bn [...]