Must be a slow day in music… I suspect I’ll always be a bit baffled by the canonization of Richard D. James as the Most Innovative Electronic Artist of the 90s. (Saying this, mind, as someone who owns nearly everything the man’s pu[…]

More proof that this woman knows exactly what she’s doing…
I’d like to see Miss Crossroads sell her own line of underpants (even if those underpants seem very tenuously related to her person.)
(On second thought, ew, no I wouldn&#82[…]

This Heat – “Cenotaph”
Cliches For A Reason: Not Knowing What Else To Do, Singers Sing Songs About 9/11 is an article @ the Village Voice by Douglas Wolk about sifting through a mountain of tapes culled from a call by the Voice for […]

And why we’re talking FSA…they’re not playing, but their spirit of outrider psychedelia will be in full swing this October 10-12th at the 5th Terrastock (the mostly-annual festival of the Ptolematic Terrascope.) It’s back in […]

Flying Saucer Attack — ‘Sally Free and Easy’
My grandfather passed away this morning. The only reason I can sit here now (thoughts as collected as can be I suppose) writing in a pop weblog is the fact that his passing had been &#82[…]

I like Ja Rule. Not a lot. But well enough. (Meaning I don’t switch the station when he comes on.) Everyone I know – from the predictable white guys who only listen to J5 or Can Ox to hardcore hiphop self-flagellates of any color or c[…]

NYLPM Corrections Dept.: Todd of O-H-J and reviewing-the-Merzbox fame has the surname of Burns, not Jones as I repeatedly stated in my write-up. We blame this on lack-of-sleep and withdrawl from quitting smoking. Or maybe that I had listened to som[…]

“It would be easy to dismiss Rhino’s double-disc “Machine Soul: An Odyssey Into Electronic Dance Music” as tacky and inauthentic, full of songs no self-respecting club kid would ever allow to course through her Walkman. And t[…]

Feedback Fruit Loops
Todd Burns has taken up the ultimate fools errand in modern music: reviewing the entire Merzbox (you know, the 50 CD [literally] fetishist packaged Merzbow box set, surest sign yet we live in the best and worst of all possible wo[…]

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[…]