NYLPM Sells Out!: actually I’m not quite sure why I thought putting a comments system on this site was such a bad idea but I had a hunch it was. However at the end of every post you’ll now see “comments” and you can add yours.[…]

But wait there’s more! FT juvenilia, that is.
– A review of the first Beta Band album, not too bad on the record itself but shockingly off-base in the last paragraph!
– A live review of the Go-Betweens – what a loss I was to t[…]

No Greenspun = more site work, as I get stuck into the FT archives again. The cherries have mostly been picked from this particular tree but here are a couple of old pieces, with hopefully more to follow. The Auteurs album I loved at the time but har[…]

This article might be an unusual one for Freaky Trigger. It won’t offer much in the way of analysis; it won’t put forward any grand or foolish theories; personal reminiscence will be kept to a minimum; I have no expert knowledge to drop a[…]

12ftlizards is a Yahoo! Group for the discussion of the future of ILM/ILE boards in the event of them vanishing. It’s also there for any other admin-style questions that might come up. Membership is open so feel free to join.[…]

Pub carpets – don’t worry this isn’t turning into a pub version of Changing Rooms – merely observations one what makes a decent carpet in a pub. As noted below in discussion of The Ring, there is something comforting about a t[…]

Greenspun.com has now been down for 36 hours, meaning no ILM and ILE. My assumption is that eventually one of these outages will be permanent (maybe even this one!) or that the ‘restructuring’ of greenspun.com will finally happen and it&#[…]

MECHA-STREISAND VS. NEIL DIAMOSAUR: FITE!
Fred Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits:
“Gary Guthrie was a particularly astute disk jockey. While spinning records for his AKY-FM show in Louisville, Kentucy, he realized that not only had[…]

The Meaning of Country Music
If the top twenty on Country Music Video is any indication, concern about a pop invasion is a fuss about very little. These songs, and the images that accompany them, are comforting in their nostalgia for a world of conse[…]