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A somewhat skewed site about
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A somewhat skewed site about Bubblegum Music, notable mostly for the rather obsessive definitions of what is (Elvis Costello, apparently) and what isn’t (anything with horns) bubblegum. Also the bizarre observations about pop and politics at th[…]

[Spinning Today]
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[Spinning Today] is a log of short record reviews, much like NYLPM was originally conceived as, lo those months gone by. It’s rather good so you should go and look at it.[…]

AN UNACCOUNTABLE OMISSION
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AN UNACCOUNTABLE OMISSION
Readers, I have failed you. I have done my best over the last several months to expose the very worst in music and warn you all from ever wasting your time, money or breath on it. But I have left a group out. A group so terr[…]

INDIE DANCE
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INDIE DANCE
Indie dance. Now hold on just a minute. We’re in trouble there from the outset, I think. Short of perhaps Laryngectomy Doo-Wop it’s tough to think of a genre which quite so comprehensively shoots itself in the foot. Indeed com[…]

The FT Fantasy Pop Etc. Etc.
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The FT Fantasy Pop Etc. Etc. game is now full up. Everyone who wrote in before now has got a place, hooray. And now back to normal NYLPM service.[…]

Gawd bless yer,
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Gawd bless yer, Metafilter: the weblog community’s premiere discussion board discovers Tanya: much incomprehension ensues. As endearingly muddleheaded as MeFi always is.[…]

More East London bars
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More East London bars The Vibe Bar is a mess. The grotty interior is well suited to its shabby student regulars. It’s got internet access on crappy terminals (worse luck – see below) and a bloody Wall of Sound-sponsored DJ. Is it not[…]

The Pumpkin Publog Urban Regeneration Campaign
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The Pumpkin Publog Urban Regeneration Campaign
The Greenwich Peninsula can collectively suck my dick – what concerns me as we shuffle into the second year of the new Millennium (yes, I said second, you pedantic arsebags) is the large stretches […]

Three places remain
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Three places remain for round one of the FT Fantasy Pop Charts game. The sooner they’re filled, the sooner we get back to links, ha.[…]

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