TANYA’S RAINBOW OF RUBBISH: Rainbow
They say there is a crock of gold at the end of the rainbow, guarded by crafty Irish leprauchauns. Well, that may well be the case, but all I saw when I got to the end of this Rainbow Of Rubbish were the four[…]

Given that the Winter Olympics are happening in Salt Lake City (easy pub quiz question!) who else would carry the torch other than the Osmonds? Ahhh Donny and Marie. No longer famous for music, just for coming from Salt Lake City. The caption to this[…]

Cornershop to attempt world record for longest remix: There is so much information missing from this tidbit of news.
1) What is the current record? My guess is that there isn’t one, therefore anyone who finds a particularly long remix will be i[…]

Nitsuh (of ILM fame) reviews Aesop Rock and makes it sound pretty good. Unfortunately the quotes Dave provides have made me never want to hear the record ever in the whole rest of my life. This is a bit unfair (though the Aesop Rock track I downloade[…]

ARMAGEDDON IT?
Various quotations pulled from an Essay On Rock & Roll Lyrics (as found on Rockwisdom.com):
“… [M]usic can be used to create and promote industry. Contemporary music provides numerous business opportunities for musici[…]

Hank Shocklee Seen Outside Def Jam Offices: “Will Produce Thundering Wall Of Sound For Food.”
Terminally out of step, Chuck D and his attendant hangers on (I wonder if they still call themselves the “Security of the First World&#822[…]

More musing on the Wetherspoon’s experience. My misfortune dumped me in the Metropolitan Bar at Baker Street last night and there was little I could do about it. is a flagship Wetherspoon’s with award winning toilets, and aircraft hanger[…]

While we’re talking lists and such…
“The Best Albums Ever…Honest” is a list by Wire critic and Telstar Ponies main man David Keenan. It’s problematic (aren’t they all…) because it falls squarely betwee[…]

A rock version of Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas is a long-cherished project of mine. Like most of my long-cherished projects, somebody’s gone and done it while I sat on my arse: hats off to Jonathan Valania for this magnificent[…]

Freaky Trigger Needs YOU: a while back I was planning to redesign NYLPM and turn it into something different, and I wanted writers. Several people got in touch. Then all sorts of bad things happened and the project fell apart. But now NYLPM is back o[…]