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Low Res Viewpub is an awful idea
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Low Res Viewpub is an awful idea, but not all the pubs involved are as hideous as John suggests. Well The Hendon in Hendon is – but any pub named after the town it is in must always be viewed upon with suspicion. Is their only claim to fame tha[…]

Maybe there’s hope for the kids after all:
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Maybe there’s hope for the kids after all: In a phone-in-and-vote “March Madness of Alternative Rock” weekend promotion sponsored by the modern rock station here in Philadelphia, Weezer came out triumphant. But the best part of that[…]

Suck
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Suck weighs in on the resurgence of phoney Beatlemania, and while I dig the idea that this represents “an attempt by aging boomers to colonize the youth of their children, to make all who come after them replicate the boomers’ own sensibi[…]

Editorial Cartoons about Napster
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Editorial Cartoons about Napster, an unsurprising number of which have roughly the same punch line: sullen, empimpled teen says “Oh no! Now I’ll have to go back to shoplifting!”[…]

Low Resolution
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Low Resolution Viewpub is an appealing concept but the delivery lets it down. Under normal circumstances, it is not possible to objectively monitor the activities which are transpiring in the pub, for two reasons. One, as a pubgoer, you are an act[…]

Morning after the pub before
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Morning after the pub before discussion turns to the Virgin Ambient Series. I am shocked to discover that I own 9 of these albums, mostly as they used to turn up in clearance sales for three quid each. What were Virgin thinking?[…]

Just to get you in the mood for Daft Punk fever…
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Just to get you in the mood for Daft Punk fever…: here are the sites of two more rule-shattering French artists.[…]

Greetings From Pub Paradise…
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Greetings From Pub Paradise…aka Edinburgh. Actually this is a misnomer. It is paradise in one way only, i.e. it offers a sneak preview of the (hopeful) future of London drinking in that the boozers stay open late. This, as everyone knows, alter[…]

Keith Levene interview at PSF:
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Keith Levene interview at PSF: Glad to see that he rates Yes so highly.[…]

For one week only
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For one week only (and to avoid it being put up on the day the new chart is released), Pop Eye returns to NYLPM. Firstly, apologies. Pop Eye is a bit late this week, mainly because Tom and I have been busy being angry at Charlotte Raven for misunders[…]

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