In a perfect world, if a generically ironic dance-pop duo decided to make an irritating, irrelevant cover of an overrated country song, a giant hammer would descend from the heavens and smite them before the first TR-808 pattern could be programmed. […]

The Beginning Of The End: and another one bites the dust, wearied by the end of the century and the decline (yeah, yeah) of Pop. But it’s not about the musicians: it’s about the listeners. And so this is the most exciting time since 1988 […]

OK COMPUTER, surely. Everybody from Q Magazine to Your Flesh gave it fifteen out of ten despite the fact that its a PISS-POOR LOAD OF OLD HORSESHIT. Let’s take as example the following ‘deathless’ lyrics:
Ahhhwarrhwarrrrrhwarrh
Ahhh[…]

AIN’T NOBODY KNOWS HIS TROUBLES WITH GOOD
Never in the field of human artistic endeavour has anyone sold out quite so utterly and completely as Moby has. Cleverly, he has done this at the precise moment in the history of human artistic endeavou[…]

Oasis Noel quits tour: how much longer can this tottering sham of a band continue?[…]

Too Many Wine Gums: “The prose is supposed to be ‘liquid dub poetics’ but, shit, all that means here is no upper casing, no full stops, and lines such as: ‘watching the buzzcocks / the powder fuse / pumping sizzle through the […]

Kelis: Kaleidoscope – PopMatters Music Review: I kinda like PopMatters, but this review falls flat. Not because of what it’s saying (though as usual there’s a sense that deep-down the reviewer feels members of oppressed groups shoul[…]

And to return to NYLPM’s favourite topic:
Oops, she’s doing it again!: from the new Salon (which is slow-to-load and now looks entirely undistinctive) an insightful look at the Britney phenomenon. The sub-editors take the predictable kid[…]

The Lars dance: Bjork’s Cannes winner is “a middlebrow film, for people with posters of Björk on their bedroom wall” – ouch. I have to say that I’m pretty much put off by the phrase “Bjork’s childlike perfor[…]

DUEL!: And today, it’s Kid Rock vs The Cardigans. Not that I want to influence you unduly or anything, but Kid Rock (allegedly rubbish new single aside) is boss, whereas the Cardigans are as their name suggests a heap of neutered shite.[…]