DONNA’S WORLD FAMOUS “LONG & SHORT OF IT!”: there’s no two ways about it, this is a site dedicated to hard rock stars’ cocks. No other comment neccessary, really, except it’s also a better anti-drugs advert th[…]

Tomorrow I’m going to see The Magnetic Fields perform live, and I know some of you are too. Pre-show drinks are a definite possibility. If you want to sort out a meeting, drop an e-mail to me here during the day tomorrow. Pip pip![…]

“The last two members of Boyzone to go solo, Shane Lynch and Keith Duffy, are to record a cover of the Milli Vanilli single ‘Girl You Know It’s True’, which is expected later in the year.” – who says pop stars don&[…]

The Boy on the Bus: scary Eminem fan freaks out guy on bus. Well written, but slightly disingenuous in its implications. I’ve been freaked by kids on buses and trains, been beaten up by one bunch. Some of the kids probably had band patches or t[…]

Don’t play that song again!: The most irritating songs of all time, as voted for by dotmusic. I have to say “We’re Going To Ibiza” has grown on me somewhat. But other than that, hard to fault this predictable list and it&#8217[…]

Pop Music is shit. I get the impression sometimes that people think NYLPM will roll over and put its paws in the air for anything as long as it goes Top 10. I say thee nay! There is a whole cartload of pop music out there which is just as calculated,[…]

The Godfathers of Britpop: the dichotomy of the mid-90s – it’s a new article on Robin Carmody’s Elidor site, and I hope he won’t mind me saying that it’s taking a pop at what has become really quite an easy target. Britp[…]

Interview with The Coup from the Onion’s marvellous A.V. club. Solid, ego-free interviewing with people who have something to say…..what a concept![…]

Hip Hop Must Die!: bloody good article which refuses to draw the cosy conclusions most ‘real’ hip-hop heads seem to, and is infinitely better for it.[…]

Time Travellin’: we used to have a section in the bookshop I named ‘Parahistory’, for all the post-Daniken, pre-Millennium “Did Aliens/Christ/Masons/Yeti Build The Pyramids?” books that were flooding in. Here’s a h[…]