Why are you being so Hundred Reasonable now?[…]

NYLPM gets a smattering of mail every day concerning upcoming events, gigs etc. I’m going to try and actually mention some of them. First we have Plug n Play, a radically democratic club night from the people at Gabba.net, happening on Sunday a[…]

Music Swap Shop – this is a little something the mighty Alan put together to facilitate the offload of duff CDs, of which I suspect I have many. A quick trawl through a single shelf (the ‘indie’ bit of my now genre-ised collection) […]

Starbound (3.2) is a somewhat frustrating example of Flash technology taken to its (ill)logical extreme, but I’ll take any chance I can to plug Disco Inferno. I have been listening to them, rather obsessively, since coming home, and fretting ([…]

LUDACRIS – “Saturday (Oooh, Oooh)”
Rhetorical question (the answer’s no): has there ever been a style of music so warmly suited to lazy summer hedonism as hip-hop? I may not have a big green stash and the pocketfuls of cash ar[…]

A new pub site has been done. I got sent the link today, and have had the time to give a test drive; at first glance, it seems a bit thin on the ground, but that would hopefully change. The aspect that caught my eye was the random crawl generator &#[…]

In Other Words Sucker, There Is No Other.
Synthesizing all extant forms of pigfucking — hardcore, grindcore, 800 types of metal with names and distinctions only spoken and understood by creepy adepts, Japanoise, power electronics, free jazz skr[…]

Back to regular linkage programming: ha ha the ultimate insult to anyone who has ever been on a skateboard! Keep it real Mr Durst! Yeah! Ha ha too much Buffy fan fiction caused me to originally type “stakeboard”.[…]

Electroclash! A stunning battle of the titans – in the red corner! A bloody great big PYLON! In the blue corner! A lightning storm! Up there in the sky, do you see? Who will win in the battle of the electricity? Man made or natural? What’[…]

Let’s All Get In The Boat
The title of this CD-R, which I made in Seattle in October 2000 for my girlfriend, comes from one of my favorite quotes. Studs Terkel, writing acerbically (as usual) about Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, was talking a[…]