Maconie’s Critical List: apparently some people still don’t own any Big Star albums. Maconie is going to tackle this crisis in schoolmasterish fashion. I have long had a soft spot for the man – he after all wrote the review of Win&#[…]

Coming Attractions — besides my long overdue first piece in and of itself as FT editor, soon I’ll be inaugurating a new and hopefully quite interesting interview series on FT entitled POP: ART, inspired in part by Tom’s excellent in[…]

Kill All Hipsters: these ones seem nice, though. Browsing tips: search for a year in the 1960s, download what they recommend. Search for 2001 and avoid what they recommend if you value your brain. Via Scrubbles.[…]

WEEZER – “HASH PIPE”
kids can be so cruel, a lesson the boys learned at a younger age than most, but at the very least they had each other: they would always have each other. bonds were formed for the old familiar reasons: the insou[…]

AIR – “RADIO #1”
if they weren’t fearful of looking egotistical — and if it also made for a better hook than “ray-dee-ohh num-berrrr one” — the boys from air woulda/shoulda named this single of theirs &[…]

Everybody Loves The NYLPM Mailbag: focus group time is upon us soon and with it come nutters searching for songs on Google. To whet your appetite here’s a little something from the mailbag about Mr. M. Manson (who we were quite nice to actually[…]

Pitchfork Gets Candid: “Okay, let’s be honest here: I know jack about techno. I’ve never really understood the DJ disc concept, and all the artists on this CD (Sniper? Narco Dogs? General MIDI?) are new to me.”[…]

AIR – “Radio#1”
Air are beautiful boys with Utopia in their eyes – “With love, melancholy snipers will become flower gun users” they tell us, and whyever shouldn’t we believe them? Their “Radio #1&#8221[…]

Ladies and Gentlemen the triumphant return of…Am I Cool Or Not?[…]

In these enlightened times when almost everybody has a favourite Backstreet Boys song it’s both saddening and strangely heartening to note that in the shadowy corners of popular culture there still lurk people carping about the Monkees being ma[…]