friday matinee: good heavens, another weblog about music? But what kind of music, I hear you cry? Could it be….INDIE ROCK?! Why yes, how did you guess?
Joking aside, Friday Matinee is honest and also has a great clean design (weblogger speak al[…]

Credit where due: that 20 musicians thing comes courtesy of Catherine at pita 2000.[…]

MEL C feat. LEFT-EYE – “Never Be The Same Again”
Now any fool knows that these days it’s coolest for musicians to be eclectic and cross genre boundaries and all that, so how come when a big bad pop star like Mel C tries everyo[…]

DUEL! – goodness me, I almost forgot, a new Duel! is up. Oasis versus the Smashing Pumpkins – this will be up until Monday morning.[…]

MILES DAVIS – Kind of Blue
The reason for this album’s eternal appeal lies in its emotional tone. Once its quietism was the perfect reflection of the spiritual Emptiness of the Eisenhower era; now its boredom, nostalgia and scarcely conce[…]

Beating a retreat: pretty dreadful review of the new Eminem album from the Guardian again, which Greg requested as a link. Caroline Sullivan knows Eminem’s motives better than he does himself, naturally.[…]

The Rap Trap: interview with Dr.Dre, sadly minus the picture that made him look like a BIG TUBBY TEDDY BEAR. It starts off like it’s going to be something really interesting, and then it gets sidetracked into a tell-the-Guardian-readers-about-D[…]

Future’s So Bright: “citysearch.com’s three dozen music editors present the 20 musicians we know will lead the way in popular music for the next 10 years.”. It’s that “know” that does it, I think. The list is[…]

Morrissey: a small talent requires a small article. Briefly: without his crack band as backup, he slid into repetition and self-pity pretty swiftly. Thousands of fans stuck with them, proving the people who’d insulted the Smiths’ fanbase […]

The Ten Most Annoying Music Genres: from Liv4Now.com’s bafflingly titled ‘Humour’ section comes this list of genres, several of which blatantly do in fact exist (special NYLPM mention if you can come up with bands in all ten, or may[…]