“Nick Hornby would never write a book about what’s on his hard drive” – Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, talking about the Napster thing. A more convincing argument for the MP3 revolution is tough to imagine, frankly.[…]

God Almighty, is there no end to it? The Official Worst Band In The World have some more material to foist upon us. Split up, yeah yeah. Actually the worst aspect of this story is Mr. Corgan’s prose style: give a pop star a keyboard and they th[…]

Empty.org — In Review is a writerly music/culture weblog which reminds me vaguely of the Josh Blog with more ‘attitude’. Two writers, haven’t read through it all yet but there’s a good sense of a dialogue going on, seems[…]

Vic Godard: continuing the music Tom likes theme, here’s the page I can find which comes nearest to breaking away from facts and anecdotes and actually wrestling with why Subway Sect were such a terrific band. Everything else is oh-how-obscure-[…]

I’ve decided NYLPM is becoming a bit negative in tone, so I’m going to make an effort to blog useful links about the music I actually like. So here’s an old Interview with Charlemagne Palestine from EST magazine. There are apparentl[…]

There’s A Tear In My Beer: “Online music festival” in ‘rubbish’ shocker. Entertaining stuff, reminding me of my chatroom days where some plonker would always open a ‘virtual beer’ or ‘light up a virtual[…]

THE BEATLES TREATISE ON REASON AND THE NATURE OF YESTERDAY
Paul McCartney believes in Yesterday – and in a lot of way he is right to. It has made him a staggering amount of money after all. But I think it might be educational to see exactly what Pa[…]

It continues – Cultural Artifacts of the Moment “I turn twenty-one during the half-hour long hellacious fuckoff feedback maelstrom of “You Made Me Realise.” It sounds like a sky so full of airplanes the sun cannot squeak throu[…]