It’s that time of year again: Son Of The Son Of The Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group is almost upon us (well, about a month away) and this time so as to avoid missing out any really really obvious records I’m asking for nominations in[…]

Arts: Tim Cumming on Miles Davis: NYLPM’s descent into the gutter continues. No, no, it doesn’t: this is an overview of Davis’ electric period – nothing new precisely but it’s well done. If you own the records this&#8217[…]

boston — peace of mind: what is so perversely appealing about this? summer and joy pervade the helium harmonies, the meticulously-crafted and sports-car-sleek just-enough tough-pop guitar riffs, and the snappily driving beat. nearly as blues[…]

What better way to celebrate the end of my alphabetical toils than with a good bit of PORN. (Josh, you wanted filthy links on NYLPM: here they are.)
OK, this is really the new Add N To X video, “Plug Me In”, for which the analogue Camden […]

Z is for….”Zoom” by Fat Larry’s Band. Why write about bad music? Because every song, dreadful or sublime, means something to someone somewhere, and in a sense it’s the critic’s job to find out why. Usually that som[…]

“Kid A” will debut at #1 on this week’s Billboard chart. 209,000 copies of the album were sold in the States in its first 7 days of release.[…]

Y is for….”You Wear It Well” by Rod Stewart. Half a phone call, a golden riff, and a masterclass in how to talk a girl round. It’s the delicious balance between Rod’s abjection and his geezer cheek that wins it, the know[…]

I like Jonathan Romney: he’s pretty much my model of what an intelligent, engaging arts journalist should be. And here he is talking about Kid A. I’d basically agree with what he says about the response to the album, with the proviso that[…]

THE ROLLING STONES – “Ruby Tuesday”
And “Manic Monday” is just the start – the names-of-days/pop music connection is deep and baleful. Take this self-pitying bloater of a track, for instance. It’s fairly stup[…]

THE BANGLES – Manic Monday
Now this one also goes out to Prince who had the temerity to write this shocker. I’m not saying the all girl group are completely blameless, they threw themselves so wholeheartedly into the pretense of being off[…]