I haven't mentioned music (or much else) on here lately, so... here's what I've been grooving to lately...

Zoot Woman - Zoot Woman
my buddy, PJ does a pretty good job of describing why this is a good album in the review he wrote for Pitchfork...

Britney Spears - Toxic
c'mon... you know you like it... with it's Spaghetti Western strings and bumping beat, this is possibly the best song Britney's ever done and is about five kabillion times better than that horrid duet with Madonna... the remixes have just leaked out and the best one by far is the Bloodshy & Avant Intoxicated Mix, which really doesn't change a lot about the song... the worst is by Felix da Housecat... after a couple of other recent mediocre mixes, i'm actually beginning to wonder if he's lost the magic touch... I guess we'll see when his new studio album is out later this year...

Zero 7 - When it Falls
one of the two most anticipated albums of early 2004 for me... it's fucking brilliant, every bit as good as Simple Things... the first single, Home, is probably the stand out track, it's not quite as brilliant as Destiny from the first one, but it's still amazing... absolutely essential late nite listening... along with...

Air - Talkie Walkie
i was lucky enough to score this album well over a month before it came out, and it's a must buy CD... Moon Safari was THE album of 1998, unfortunately while the song Playground Love from the Virgin Suicides soundtrack was equally stunning, nothing else the group has done since Moon Safari has had quite the same elegant beauty about it... but they've reversed a bit and gone back to find the magic that was missing... this album will be firmly lodged in a lot of top 10 lists at the end of this year, including mine...

Blondie - Good Boys
I know this song has been out in the UK for a while, but I just heard it in a bar a couple of weeks ago and it caught my attention, making me turn to watch the video screen... "really good video with a charismatic singer", I thought... i was a bit shocked to see the credits at the end of it... wow... Debbie Harry's not fat any more!... anyways, damned catchy song... who'da thunk it?

DFA
anything and everything that the Death From Above production team touches is blazingly brilliant... LCD Soundsytem's Yeah is tearing up my iPod on a daily basis... their remixes of Chromeo, Le Tigre, Fischerspooner, Floetry, Metro Area, Radio 4, Junior Senior and even Mariah Fucking Carey have all been the absolute bomb... they seriously have the funk....

more later.... i'm tired of typing html....