Say you’re a winner, but, man, you’re just a sinner now….

HYPE – Slang (n.)
– Excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion
– Exaggerated or extravagant claims made especially in advertising or promotional […]

WORDS AND MUSIC
A HISTORY OF POP IN THE SHAPE OF A CITY
BLOOMSBURY, £12.99, ISBN: 0747557780
If an ideal pop journal were to give me 1,864 words to take a tour of Paul Morley’s new ‘history of pop in the shape of a city’, there mig[…]

This thread got me thinking that I hadn’t posted here in a while and that my day yesterday would probably make a better story than that Shellac-and-Main bullshit in the archives so my day from about 3 pm August 19 went:
Sarah and I start drinki[…]

New archive additions on Freaky Trigger: MJ Hibbett on local bands. Ned on Charles Schulz. Sterling on Americana. Me on 1977. Otis on John Fahey. It’s nice to have them back.[…]

VERLAINES — ‘Hanging By Strands’ / ‘Joed Out’
BARBARA MANNING — ‘Hanging By Strands / ‘Joed Out’
A fox fur is an expensive accessory — it speaks of a life of privilege, prestige, and money. […]

CLARENCE CARTER – “Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street)”
HEFNER – “I Stole A Bride”
Something missing from pop, maybe: a sense of sin. Sins we have in multitudes, of course – red-capped anger, ice-wris[…]

Nostalgia For The Present Time: a thread. I can remember nothing about January and February this year. What on earth did I do?[…]

Why We Write About The Strokes: So, OK. Neumu which is a big online altzine covers the Strokes who are an altband you might have heard of, yes? (Here’s what I thought of them) Neumu wuvs The Strokes. Reader writes in, and is sick of The Strokes[…]

Second rule of FilePile is YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT FILEPILE: oops. Anyway not that I’m condoning MP3 trading but I thought I’d point out that this fellow seems to put up files regularly which chime rather well with the NYLPM worldview.[…]

Good Times Never Seemed So Good: A friendly suggestion – if things are looking bleak, and you can’t seem to do anything to perk yourself up, sing a Neil Diamond song. Doesn’t matter which one, though I would think that his best-kn[…]