Spine Magazine – you are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge…
I don’t think we’ve linked to Spine before, which is a shame because it’s a good zine. It’s nice to see UK writers looking at hip hop […]

SONGS ABOUT SPACEMEN
Y’see the clever thing is that people from space are called Spacemen. But in the hippy dippy parlance of the sixties both the worlds “Man” and Spaced” were commonly used shortcuts to saying “A person[…]

Do rappers live in the studio? You really have to wonder, based on the sheer amount of post-death output that seems to occur. Now Big Pun is releasing a new album, in February, even though he died months ago. Tupac has “new” material comi[…]

getting in on the spice girls act: i am just so glad that the girls only sold 71,000 copies of their godawful album in the uk. it strikes me that they’re doing even worse in the us, but it’s always hard to tell until you get the billboard[…]

Just to update Maura’s entry below, the song that rips off The Pajama Game is called “Dance With Me” by Debahlah Morgan. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a silly, stupid song, but much less egregious and awful a musical rip[…]

POP-EYE 12/11/00
Oh, I pity poor Tom & Tanya last week. It truly was a seething cess-pit of horror that particular chart. Admittedly the run-down I get to cut my Pop-Eye teeth is one constituted of much of last weeks dross, but at least this wee[…]

Is no musical sacred? Now playing on the Philadelphia Top 40 station: a song that has lifted the melody for its chorus (“Let’s make love and dance the night away”) wholesale from “Hernando’s Hideaway,” which, a Goo[…]

Mazarin And My Indie Conscience
Hands plunged in pockets to keep the cold out; a rueful smile and a toss of the hair; a tumble of drums and a clotted voice –
“Hold on! (more…)[…]

Britney To Write A Book. I’m sure it will be excellent. I’m off on an unintended vacation from NYLPM (to do with not having a phone line in my new house), but one of the things we’ll do when I get back is rock books, I think. Meanwh[…]

Westlife: Better than The Beatles?: Hooray for BBC Talking Point, that weathervane for the crucial issues of the day! Hooray for Beatles fans, happy to rise to any bait! Hooray for pop music in all its shabby glory! Westlife can, of course, piss off,[…]