Why Online Indie Rock Zines Suck: I am intensely jealous of Nanette’s bulletin board, on which there’s currently this very interesting* discussion about the Indie Rock Zine Crisis which Us Vs Them identified-stroke-started earlier on toda[…]

Re-rewind the Clock: I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t hugely influenced by Chuck Eddy – in fact in its prior incarnation NYLPM was a pretty obvious attempt to do a singles column in Eddy style, which soon changed tack when I realised[…]

Tom at Barbelith has some interesting things to say about MP3s and encryption. I don’t see any reason why his plans wouldn’t work, but I do see that they’d enforce copyright protection more tightly than has been the case since befor[…]

The first thing to say about the Mercury Music Prize is that you have to assume it’s a hive of corruption and critical second-guessing. Take it in any other way and you’d be endorsing the possibility that a panel of judges genuinely do t[…]