Yo, Simon Reynolds! He’s kinda got a point, eh?[…]

“if you think the concept of hip is dead all it means is you’re not hip anymore,” i was told today. and just now i came across “the kids are alright” from the washington post—almost out of the semi-lucrative, after […]

“Jesus, it’s the inner sleeve of “Goo” all over again”: oh no, it’s just the collection of postcards from makeoutclub.com. POSSIBLE PRE-PUBLICATION CHECKLIST: obligatory references to pop culture from the 1970s (&#[…]

Crown of Trinkets — yes, you read that right. And it’s a blog, though it hasn’t linked to this one yet. I, however, as a member of the NYLPM team aggrandize myself by linking to it as it is the newly founded blog of my friend and […]

Rap Snacks: it’s hip-hop crisps! But of course it is. (via The Null Device, whose tagline I am so jealous of.)[…]

Interview With Gail O’Hara, who does legendary ‘zine Chickfactor. Oh, the toils and trials of the fanzine writer’s life! Nuff respect but her distinction between ‘zines (fab groovy gear etc.) and her vision of the Internet, wh[…]

“Where Is Thousand?”, you might well be asking. I’ll be kicking off again tonight, but meanwhile Robin Carmody has missed it so badly he’s decided to do his own version.[…]

Revolution In The Head: Simon Reynolds’ long piece on Kid A from last Autumn. Well worth reading whether you like that record or not (I’m very interested in his semi-confession on his own site that he’s not listened to it much since[…]

The Sounds Of Silence: long and extremely interesting article about John Cage’s 4’33”. Wish I could remember where I got it from. Anyway it gets a little precious in places but that’s forgiveable given that Cage’s piece […]

Random Electronica Subgenres: ho ho ho. Actually not very funny because half of them exist. I oscillate between thinking micro-genres are a good thing because they annoy people and a bad thing because debate about the music swiftly dissolves into &#8[…]