Fascinating article on Napster, the DMCA, and the recording industry’s ongoing Canute act. Found via The Laboratorium, who offers much more intelligent commentary than I’m able to.[…]

More admin stuff: I’ve finally updated the music articles page and will try and keep it up to date from now on. Forty-five or so pieces – something there for everyone reading NYLPM, I’d guess. Looking over the list I’m frankly[…]

DJ Luck And MC Neat feat. JJ – “Masterblaster 2000” (mp3)
B15 Project feat. Chrissy D & Lady G – “Girls Like Us” (mp3)
UK Garage as “Pop!” and I love it. Replacing Sweet Female Attitude’s &#8[…]

LINK WRAY – Batman
Some people used to suggest that Batman and Robin’s relationship was improper. Can you believe it? These people claimed that Batman had lured a troubled young man into sinister vigilante activity, regularly exposing him[…]

THE COCTEAU TWINS
(SCENE: St.Custards’ SKOOL LAB. I, N.MOLESWORTH am about to demonstrate my new invention to my grate friend PEASON.)
PEASON: Wot is this? Yore new hem hem invention? It look very TINY. Wot does it do?
MOLESWORTH: Peason thou c[…]

Reader Response: Already we put the results of the Readership Survey into action. Somebody wanted more Belle And Sebastian, somebody else wanted more long articles – and this is, yes, a long article about Belle And Sebastian. It’s also fu[…]

ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION
Maybe I’ve missed the boat. Maybe I’m still stuck in the waiting room. Maybe my train has already been and gone. Maybe I’m the only one who actually dares to say that Asian Dub Foundation are over-rated. Innovat[…]

Non-Music Thing: To the person from the University of Idaho who came to NYLPM and H-Clicked me, and asked why H-Click could be a hassle…..well, because it sometimes goes offline and throws you out of the chat and makes me look really rude. And […]

There’s a couple of new things at Tangents – an article on grammar pedants, and an interview with Fosca which admits from the outset it’s not that interesting, and I have to agree. But there’s also a front-page piece by Alasta[…]

Log On, Tune In, Drop Out: finally some interesting thoughts on the impact online music will have on how we listen to and socialise through music. Michelle Goldberg is gloomy – internet radio is solipsistic and unlikely to create a community, a[…]