Freaky Trigger

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| type = Popular culture, music, news, reviews

| format = Internet

| foundation = {{Start date and age|1999|df=no}}

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| price = Free

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| founder = Tom Ewing

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| language = English

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| website = {{url|http://freakytrigger.co.uk}}

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Freaky Trigger is an Internet publication and e-zine that focuses on popular culture with topics varying from music to cinema. It was founded by the music critic Tom Ewing in 1999 and features Pete Baran and Mark Sinker as editors.{{Cite web |url=http://freakytrigger.co.uk/about/ |title=Freaky Trigger - About |website=freakytrigger.co.uk |access-date=8 February 2017}} From 2000 to 2005, it also used to host a music-specific blog, titled NYLPM.{{Cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/article/6227-nylpm-2000-05/ |title=NYLPM, 2000-05 |last=Harvell |first=Jess |date=8 January 2006 |website=Pitchfork |access-date=8 February 2017}} Ewing also started the popular music forum I Love Music (ILM) in August 2000 as a sister website to Freaky Trigger.[http://www.ilxor.com/faq.html "ILXor.com FAQ"], Retrieved 9 February 2016 A notable feature on the website is Popular, a longtime ongoing series where Ewing reviews each UK Singles Chart number one single ever in chronological order.{{cite web|last1=Ewing|first1=Tom|title=Popular FAQ|url=http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular-faq/|website=Freaky Trigger|access-date=9 February 2017}} Popular was later the subject of the Saint Etienne song of the same name.{{cite web |last=Hogan |first=Marc |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16636-words-and-music-by-saint-etienne/ |title=Saint Etienne: Words and Music by Saint Etienne |publisher=Pitchfork |date=23 May 2012 |access-date=4 June 2017}}

Freaky Trigger was featured in OC Weekly{{'}}s list of "10 Crucial Music Websites"{{Cite web |url=http://www.ocweekly.com/music/10-crucial-music-websites-6398982 |title=10 Crucial Music Websites |last=Raggett |first=Ned|date=17 November 2007 |publisher=OC Weekly |access-date=8 February 2017}} and one of its reviews, Eminem's “Stan” by Tom Ewing, was referenced on the list of "The Best Music Writing of 2015" by the Complex.{{Cite web |url=http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/12/staff-picks-best-music-writing-of-2015/ |title=The Best Music Writing of 2015 |date=17 December 2015 |publisher=Complex |access-date=8 February 2017}} The Guardian have also referred to Freaky Trigger articles, one time on the Freaky Trigger piece "The Strange Death of the UK Charts",{{cite news|last1=Lynskey|first1=Dorian|title=The top 40 rides again|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jan/22/top-40-music-chart|website=The Guardian|date=22 January 2009 |access-date=9 February 2017}} and one time on an Ewing piece on Cliff Richard.{{cite news|last1=Stanley|first1=Bob|title=Cliff Richard – why we've got him all wrong|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/sep/17/cliff-richard-bob-stanley|website=The Guardian|date=17 September 2009 |access-date=9 February 2017}} Stylus Magazine have also referred to Freaky Trigger in an article.{{cite web|last1=Mathers|first1=Ian|title=Geezaesthetics|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/turntable/2003/12/10/geezaesthetics/|website=Stylus|access-date=9 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121121207/http://stylusmagazine.com/turntable/2003/12/10/geezaesthetics/|archive-date=21 November 2008|date=10 December 2003}} The NYLPM blog was notably eulogized by Pitchfork in early 2006, following the suspension of its publication.