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Selling Millions On A Sour Note
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Selling Millions On A Sour Note: pre-Grammy’s article (a bit late, sorry) on the pop industry’s dislike and distrust of the music it’s currently pushing. I disagree with virtually every opinion expressed, especially Carlos Santana&#[…]

You want over-intellectualisation?
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You want over-intellectualisation? I’ll give you over-intellectualisation: “Top of the Pops made radical, filled with fury against exploitation and injustice would not transform Britain but a Top of the Pops filled with disco, the empty h[…]

Mental! Mental! Mental
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Mental! Mental! Mental: It’s the Crawley Love Parade, brought to you by Popjustice!.[…]

“The point is to like pop as well as everything else”
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Skip this entry if you don’t want to read editorial metastuff: music content minimal.. Tim has some very interesting things to say about the the quality of pop 2000, and one absurd but flattering thing to say about NYLPM (I can’t even def[…]

summersalts
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summersalts is an online music zine produced by one person who sits and reviews records and writes about music and harasses idiots in AOL chats and generally does all your standard indie-rock things. I liked the front page and the articles, I liked t[…]

DMX
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DMX
“What’s My Name?” asks DMX, a curious question since the only thing he raps about is his bloody name. Can it really be that he doesn’t know? A trend of some concern in rap music, this use of songs as 3-minute business card[…]

A couple of corrections
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A couple of corrections:
i. Yeah, Ned, it was “In Bloom”.
ii. The link to the NY Times story was from the untilthebreakofdawn blog, which is juicy and good and obviously has a cool name too.[…]

My Science Project
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My Science Project is one of my favourite blog names but I don’t read it as much as I should. Especially considering that shared love of Neighbours. Anyway, the reason for this post: Napster treasures. Sure, “Oops The Real Slim Shady Did […]

Phallic cymbals
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Phallic cymbals: “David Lee Roth, ex-frontman with Van Halen, is excoriated for consorting voraciously with female groupies, yet Jimi Hendrix, just as sexually insatiable, was merely displaying “an innocently baroque gusto”. Innocen[…]

A little more on ATN
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A little more on ATN — inspired by Tom’s link and discussion, I figured I’d float by there again to see what was up. I was never anything like a regular reader — my initial sense of ATN when I read it was not of groundbreakin[…]

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