Morrissey: a small talent requires a small article. Briefly: without his crack band as backup, he slid into repetition and self-pity pretty swiftly. Thousands of fans stuck with them, proving the people who’d insulted the Smiths’ fanbase […]

The Ten Most Annoying Music Genres: from Liv4Now.com’s bafflingly titled ‘Humour’ section comes this list of genres, several of which blatantly do in fact exist (special NYLPM mention if you can come up with bands in all ten, or may[…]

Splendid E-zine: 14 Books You Might Find In Stephin Merritt’s Bathroom: best link I’ve found in days, particularly as it’s actually serious. Kind of.
Subliminal message to readers: BUY 69 LOVE SONGS BY THE MAGNETIC FIELDS.[…]

Common: Like Water for Chocolate: Pitchfork Review – so here’s a question, following on from Tanya’s Marvin Gaye dissection in IHM. Is the idea of ‘soul’ – whether as genre or innate musical quality – actuall[…]

Ivor Novello awards: The winners: “Best song musically and lyrically: Strong – Robbie Williams. Lord have mercy.[…]

Rage Against The Machine: Ned Raggett discusses the popular political band, from Freaky Trigger.[…]

DUEL!: and this morning’s competitors, The Bloodhound Gang and Paul Weller.[…]

orsomething.: it’s a blog, not specifically about music – in fact not at all about music – but with a lot of back-and-forth debate over the MP3s/Napster issue. And the people involved have a working web bullshit-detector, always a r[…]