THE REAL REASON LED ZEP WERE RUBBISH
The Zep war flaring twixt Tom and Fred is of course ridiculous to an extreme. Of course ver Zep were excrable, that was pretty much their raison d’etre. By way of proof I need merely offer one salient fact. […]

Progressive rock sought to expand the language of rock music, and also to raise its artistic game until it achieved some kind of wider acceptance within the grand narrative of ‘proper’ artistic achievement. The successes and failures of t[…]

HOW TO WRITE A LED ZEPPELIN SONG
1: Steal an old Robert Johnson blues track. Preferably one about being lonely, or flood defence mechanisms.
2. If the lyrics make too much sense, change them. Nip down the library and get out a copy of Tolkein’s[…]

“Damn you, Tom, I want singles reviews, not this tipping the wink to everyone with the wit to HumanClick you! And reviews of proper singles, too, not some nonsense by Piano bleedin’ Magic.” If this is your attitude, dear reader, go […]

A nice fellow chatted to me on HumanClick and asked me to put a link to his band’s (nicely laid-out) homepage. So here it is: there are nine of them, and there are live MP3s too. Go visit.[…]

It’s Tanya’s birthday! Help her celebrate by rating her at bloghop. And if you look around a bit you’ll find almost every other weblog we run or link to listed there, too, including – on-topic bit here! – a whole page of[…]

THE PUB SEVEN DEADLY SINS: 1: Jukebox / MTV combo’s
Many pubs are now littered with televisions. Useful in sporting occasions, which therefore draw in the punters who drink more. Certainly I have spent many a happy afternoon in a Saloon, pint o[…]

One fabulous reader suggested to me that NYLPM run, for its American readers and those Brits who affect not to be interested in the Top 40, a weekly column on the charts. So here it is:
POP-EYE: 1/10/00
Actually a frankly inauspicious week for the fi[…]

CORNELIUS – “Perfect Rainbow”
He plays games. And nothing else. And your tolerance of Keigo Oyamada’s tactics depends entirely on your tolerance of artists whose entire raison d’etre is to play about with past music an[…]

Just Drifting: Situationism and Rock: via Pearls, a pretty basic overview of the links between, well, situationism and rock (links which indie punk boy rockers down the ages have been far keener to emphasise than the situationists, it needs be said).[…]