SPILLER – “Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)”
Spiller’s turned respectable heads, and people sharper than you or I are saying Single Of The Year to this easy-sliding disco confection. Let’s hope not – oh, it&#82[…]

Big thanks to Mike for going to the Insound Zine Conference and spreading the word about the dubious and contrarian virtues of Freaky Trigger. Read his account of the conference and wonder. Oh, and from her sickbed Tanya let me know how embarrassed s[…]

Stop the presses! It’s a good review of the new Belle And Sebastian album. (At what point is a given band’s album not “the new” anymore?). This comes from stopsmiling.net, a new popculture zine which has quickly demonstrated i[…]

A Notion Of Sound: excellent Tangents interview with David Toop. “With [Sugar And Poison], I was sick and tired of the way soul ballads had been dismissed as romantic escapist drivel over the years by intellectuals of all persuasions and colour[…]

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – “The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret”
Metal lost the singles knack at some point – there is no fan more stolidly loyal than the metal fan, and so tracks by Maiden and Metallica were always guaranteed a d[…]

noisician.com web log: I don’t usually cover musician’s weblogs because they’re often (whisper it) shockingly boring, but this is an endearing exception – a noise musician whose no-bullshit enthusiasm for his chosen playground[…]

Spectropop – Spector, Brill, Gold Star and Girl Groups: covers it all, really. If like me you think the ‘craft’ bits of 60s were just as good/important as the ‘art’ bits you might find this site interesting. Judging from[…]

Apologies for lack of blogging this weekend – two birthdays and a giddy social life have brought Blue Lines and NYLPM low – but for something to read here’s a new Freaky Trigger piece on High Fidelity, a film review and also a piece[…]

“Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable, or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?” Good question. I’ve asked it myself for years; John Cusack phrases it neatly in the first minute of High Fidelity. But then he […]

In lieu of any real content on NYLPM today, more reports from the indie rock zineblog warz. Pitchfork drops its fence-sitting policy and disparagingly quotes Splendid. Well and good. But Pitchfork of course never links to anyone (‘cos they thin[…]