The guy at K-Punk has done a reply of sorts to Simon Reynold's article....I agree about that awful Guardian article (which it links to) - and me saying so doesn't mean I'm an old out-of-touch fogy. Just because British guitar music is booming, it doesn't mean that the Kaiser Chiefs or The Zutons or the Dead 60's or whatever else of this kind of ilk that the NME is hyping up are any good. Then again, that doesn't mean that all guitar 'indie' (whatever that means these days) music's worth is negated, just that chancers like The Rakes are not the future of music.

Excellent contribution to the Danish cartoon debate too at the bottom of the screen, which puts the controversy into perspective.