Drawer B New Media Reviews: Records, CDs, MP3s, Movies, Websites, Concerts.: and what can I possibly add to that summary? The Mysterons at Drawer B write a good, eclectic game, and this is yet another fine music-related site I can’t believe I&#[…]

Recording Industry Seeks Immediate Shutdown of Napster – note involvement of poacher-turned-gamekeeper mp3.com.[…]

Want to impress the ladies with your sensitive side fella’s? Why be content with merely owning a Jonathon Richman record, when you can be Jonathon Richman? Its easy:
1. If you really are sensitive, you have probably been in a number of fights a[…]

Beyond The Cataracts: “The trouble with Sondheim’s complaint about “recycled” culture is that all culture is recycled”. Not many links to stories on musicals in NYLPM, so let’s rectify that by eavesdropping on this[…]

Mosh-pit mania “Civilization is hard to kill, even in the pit. They a woman was gang-raped in front of the stage at Woodstock ’99, but that was three days into it.” – well, that’s alright then. I used to go down the fron[…]

Another 1993 single. 7 years is a weird timespan in pop: I’d suggest that nothing recorded at a given time will have the slightest influence seven years on. It’s too late to react against, far too late to build on, but too early to canoni[…]

DUEL! – ROUND 2: today it’s Moby vs Weller.
And yes, the archives are on the right. Sorry.[…]

Motown A&R, sometime in 1978.
Stevie: Hi, Bob. I’ve finally come up with an idea for all-important follow up to my Grammy Award-winning, critically acclaimed, #1 hit album, Songs in the Key of Life.
A&R: Stevie, that’s great! Let&[…]

Skratch Piklz to retire: “Yogafrog said he and colleagues Qbert, D-Styles and new member DJ Flare will train with an unnamed musician whom they describe as someone who “shared with us the most beautiful way to express scratching.”&#[…]

DUEL! – ROUND 2: Eels vs Skunk Anansie. Skunk A. have to be favourites, but come on, Eels are really, really bad.[…]