Archives – 2001 – May – 16  

It’s Self-Pimping Time
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— 16 May 2001 Tom Comment

It’s Self-Pimping Time: NYLPM readers might have noticed a lack of reviews here lately. Well spotted, o my sharp-eyed readers. I’ve got pop-writer’s block and can’t think of anything to say about anything very much. So what I&[…]

A perhaps over-generous
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— 16 May 2001 Tom Comment

A perhaps over-generous review of Hairy Butter’s album. HB when I saw them did indeed look – and dress – like “sneering aesthetes”, so that’s probably part of the point. But in a 95% worthless set there were three […]

Records Ad Nauseam
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— 16 May 2001 Tom Comment

Records Ad Nauseam: “We pick records and write about them….some of us are trying to be Simon Reynolds, some of us are trying to be Lester Bangs…”. To which I can only say – welcome aboard, shipmates.[…]

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