CLINIC – “The Castle” (B-Side of The Return Of Evil Bill CD Single)
The thing everybody says about Clinic is how much like the Velvet Underground they sound. Well, pardon me for saying so, but the VU were never fronted by anyone as […]

DEAD PREZ – “I’m An African”; “Behind Enemy Lines”; “Be Healthy” (From the Let’s Get Free CD)
Tom was right to identify the harsh, stripped-down, drone-based “Hip Hop” as one of the fe[…]

KOOL KEITH – “Rockets on the Battlefield”;”Livin’ Astro”;”I Don’t Play” (from the CD Black Elvis / Lost In Space)
Tom was right – Kool Keith is one of the great refusers of pop, the sort of […]

Not sure which is stupider – the No.1 in the ‘Good Music Things’ or the No.1 in the ‘Bad Music Things’. Well, no, I am absolutely sure. Thanks to My Science Project for that link.[…]

We’ll make you a star – it’s a virtual popstar! ”
T-Babe is as real as any other 18 year old. She dyes her hair blonde. She is fashion conscious and she wears underwear from Asda.” That last sentence doesn’t quite […]

Elidor, the cultural dissecting table presided over by nylpm regular Robin Carmody, has been updated, and how. Articles on Johnny and the Hurricanes, the Daily Telegraph, Pharaoh Monche, wanking, TV, and UK Hip Hop, all of which touch on about ten ot[…]

WOODBINE – Tricity Tiara (CD Single, 2000)
The Woodbine sleeve is underweight and diffident, a cut off brown-and-white drawing and some thin brown-on-burnt-orange lettering: so indie that one crassly-placed Tower Records sticker could – d[…]

Please, play something else: anti-canonical sentiment from the classical world.[…]

What’re You Listening For? asks Tangents, with an article drawing the confounding and intriguing link between Broadcast and Pentangle – not something that occurred to me when I walked bored out of a Broadcast performance last year, but th[…]

Threatster: hooray! Thanks Chris & Ned.[…]