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Fischerspooner say UK gigs will ‘eclipse’ Star Wars
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Fischerspooner say UK gigs will ‘eclipse’ Star Wars: pop band in dry ice machine shocker![…]

George W Bush ‘is stalking me’ – Moby
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George W Bush ‘is stalking me’ – Moby: why famous people should not be allowed websites.[…]

The end of the single?
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The end of the single? Yes, yes, we’ve heard it all before. Andy Gill, writing for The Independent marks the fiftieth anniversary of the British pop charts by charting its supposed demise. There are some interesting points made here, but the ov[…]

Eminem threatens fans who upload his music onto Internet
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Eminem threatens fans who upload his music onto Internet: I was going to let one of the more regular writers comment on this, but no one seems interested in doing so. I’m somewhat conflicted on this. On the one hand, he certainly has a point[…]

Why are you being so Hundred Reasonable now?
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Why are you being so Hundred Reasonable now?[…]

NYLPM gets a smattering of mail
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NYLPM gets a smattering of mail every day concerning upcoming events, gigs etc. I’m going to try and actually mention some of them. First we have Plug n Play, a radically democratic club night from the people at Gabba.net, happening on Sunday a[…]

Music Swap Shop
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Music Swap Shop – this is a little something the mighty Alan put together to facilitate the offload of duff CDs, of which I suspect I have many. A quick trawl through a single shelf (the ‘indie’ bit of my now genre-ised collection) […]

Starbound (3.2)
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Starbound (3.2) is a somewhat frustrating example of Flash technology taken to its (ill)logical extreme, but I’ll take any chance I can to plug Disco Inferno. I have been listening to them, rather obsessively, since coming home, and fretting ([…]

LUDACRIS – “Saturday (Oooh, Oooh)”
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LUDACRIS – “Saturday (Oooh, Oooh)”
Rhetorical question (the answer’s no): has there ever been a style of music so warmly suited to lazy summer hedonism as hip-hop? I may not have a big green stash and the pocketfuls of cash ar[…]

A new
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A new pub site has been done. I got sent the link today, and have had the time to give a test drive; at first glance, it seems a bit thin on the ground, but that would hopefully change. The aspect that caught my eye was the random crawl generator &#[…]

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