Up Middle Finger As it turned out, excessive bounty and largesse was spread yesterday evening in the Blue Posts to commemorate Emma’s increased agedness. The result was some deeply poor jukebox selections: A Forest by The Cure, anyone? Lying […]

Stopsmiling reviews Amnesiac, and I can’t say much more about the article than that it’s generally lucid and I kept nodding my head when reading it. Also from Stopsmiling, an entertaining sort-of-interview with The Clientele, which brough[…]

It’s Self-Pimping Time: NYLPM readers might have noticed a lack of reviews here lately. Well spotted, o my sharp-eyed readers. I’ve got pop-writer’s block and can’t think of anything to say about anything very much. So what I&[…]

A perhaps over-generous review of Hairy Butter’s album. HB when I saw them did indeed look – and dress – like “sneering aesthetes”, so that’s probably part of the point. But in a 95% worthless set there were three […]

Records Ad Nauseam: “We pick records and write about them….some of us are trying to be Simon Reynolds, some of us are trying to be Lester Bangs…”. To which I can only say – welcome aboard, shipmates.[…]

ILM Post Of The Day (from MJ Hibbett, two down. Sorry for missing your gig, Mr. H.)[…]

A Sunday Moment: I like this.[…]

Pop Culture Makes You Stupid…but not as stupid as most discussion forums. Thanks to Mike for the link, more depressing than enlightening alas.[…]

The I Love Music Top 100: or a bit of it anyway. Fred has been putting this poll together from regulars on the FT forum. Said regulars are greeting it with general disappointment and derision, but such is the way of the poll, I rather fear.[…]

“I didn’t realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry” (actually I’ve read a lot worse).
Sorry for the brief NYLPM hiatus, a mixture of circumstances within and without my control.[…]