ILB’s only comment on the Pitchfork decade-end lists

Well, that’s all we’re going to say until (*AIRHORN SAMPLE* EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE *AIRHORN SAMPLE*) the Stylus celebratory one-off return “we’re getting the gang back together” decade-end polls drop in a month or so’s time.

Yep, none of us have moved on with our lives in the interim.

Pearl Jam fans have an opinion

Pearl Jam have released a new album, “Backspacer”. Most places have decided that now is the time and the place to confer upon Pearl Jam the Oasis/REM seal of “No really! This is a stunning return to form” marquee-reviewing. Pitchfork, however, disagreed, and former Stylus mainstay Joshua “Josh” Love only found it worthy of a 4.6. So far, so fascinating.

Hold On Now, Tubster

Although we’ve done the Mexican arm drag exchange thing before, this isn’t about my previous exchange of words with 90s alopecia poster boy Steven Wells, nor about his recently acquired belief that second generation immigrants like myself are apparently some kind of elaborate fucking song-and-dance spectacle put on for the benefit of blue-eyed devils like himself. Nope, it’s August 18, 2008 and Stevie Boy’s crotch is bleeding over twee pop and, in particular, Los Campesinos!.