Eminem – “Without Me”
When I first started paying attention to music, it was music on the radio – the top 40 – that I payed attention to. There were lots of things I didn’t like, but that was immaterial given that […]

Freezing to Death in the Nuclear Bunker is Jody Beth Rosen’s “rockblog” which for once in my life I stumbled upon not because it links to me! (I followed a link on rockcritics.com’s Top Fives). And as she says herself, she too[…]

Xinlisupreme – “All You Need Is Love Was Not True” b/w “Kyoro/CLose”
I can offer nothing rational (haha, not like last night, eh Jess?) on this slab of oddly fey brutality, because like most things which drown good inten[…]

Tom’s Top Ten!
UNKNOWN – “Lisa’s Got Hives”
SONS OF THE PIONEERS – “Old Man Atom”
CUTTY RANKS – “Wake Da Man”
THE BAND – “Whispering Pines”
WYCLEF JEAN – &#8220[…]

Self Indulgent? Never… Moderately amusing review of last night’s Manitoba / Four Tet date at Edinburgh’s Belle Angele venue. Notable mostly for classic local paper take on contemporary electronic music, complete with awful puns (&#8[…]

Where did the music go?: you’ll probably all have seen this Jaron Lanier essay, if you’ve been browsing the sidebar links here – it’s been talked about in Michaelangelo Matos’ and Nate Patrin’s blogs and probably s[…]

Who’d have thought it. My standard test for detecting top-notch music writing, and I’m sure it’s a common one, is whether or not it makes me want to hear the record under discussion. In this piece for Village Voice by Frank Kogan my[…]

radiohead can just…eat a dick. should that go on nylpm?[…]

blah blah ashanti blah blah another friggin ja rule single blah blah mary j blah blah anonymous neptunes thug single blah blah nelly blah blah EMINEM then more crap.[…]

“You can use this space to talk about how the Big Tymers are back…ha ha, just kidding…Big Tymers aren’t back!” Aggressively mediocre records like Project English and Hood Rich don’t help. (But is it true the latt[…]