Nonstop Pop: good and friendly indie-oriented site – i.e. the “pop” is of the Go-Betweens and Interpol variety.[…]

Mochi Manifesto: embarassingly I was sure this was already on my sidebar and it turns out it’s not. Alex Honda talks about good modern music.[…]

nightclub jitters: another very nice looking website (does anyone want to redesign NYLPM??) covering Beck, jazz, Flaming Lips – this week, at least.[…]

The Mix Project: now this is the business. Interesting choices, interesting words. You’ll want to hear all these songs, which is still sometimes the point.[…]

NEW ARTILLERY is another indie-oriented thing, from Sebastian Stirling who used to publish Signal Drench, which – and I apologise if my memory of interweb rockcrit is rusty here – went under when it mentalistically decided to try and emul[…]

The Rub: it isn’t (ha ha). I think we’ve linked this before. Indie-oriented music weblog, to-the-point and well-written. Also very tasty-looking: I had no idea pitas sites could look so nice![…]

A Face in the Crowd: and another new blog (yes, I’m going down an ilxor.com plug-yr-blog thread). This is by o.nate, a well-regarded ILM regular, talking about Astrobotnia, Carter Family, Sonic Youth (everyone’s talking about Sonic Youth […]

Smote Thy Brother: new(ish) music weblog. Don’t be put off by the (current) top post though (music weblogger bored of music! Will wonders never cease?).[…]

Pitchfork Reviews The Streets: and what do I think of that? I think they do a good job, from an admittedly transatlantic perspective. After all, Original Pirate Material IS a UK hip-hop album, as much as it is a “UK garage” or “elec[…]

A magnificent triviality: the title says it all. In his excellent write-up of Original Pirate Material, it’s interesting that Marcello recommends you skip ‘Don’t Mug Yourself’ and ‘Who Got The Funk?’, the two track[…]