As promised: Me on Fluxblog on Baggy plus THEE BIG POLL.[…]

What A Palaver!
I’m going to stay out of debates about pop for a while, I think, because
– I don’t feel intellectually sharp enough at the moment
– (more importantly) I end up unintentionally upsetting or offending people I re[…]

POP FACTOR: 839 CONTROVERSY RATING:
“Was I ever in love? I called it love.
I mean, it felt like love.
There were moments when –
well –
There were moments when.”
8 (Tom)
The Streets finally have indie cred here. Painfully hip […]

Appliance Anniversary OK the list of wedding anniversaries is well known to be a bit lame – paper/cotton/fruit etc etc. – but Wedding Guide UK’s updated SPEND-MORE-MONEY-PLEASE list of ‘modern anniversaries’ is simply me[…]

Sausages 4Ever: this is going to be the best blog in the world.[…]

Role-playing is a resource-intensive hobby. Aside from the ridiculous number of available rulebooks, supplements, pre-written adventures and so on, you need two things: time and people. I had plenty of time – people were more of a problem. It w[…]

Happy Birthday Kate Bush! A reader has emailed to ask that NYLPM mention that it’s Kate Bush’s birthday (don’t know if it’s a particularly significant one or anything) – NYLPM is happy to oblige. “Babooshka”,[…]

Pop Metaphors Vol. n: my favoured image for the interaction of underground creative scenes and the pop overground is the cocktail (or any mixer drink really): the booze is what gives the mixture its kick – but drinking spirits neat is an occasi[…]

All those people, all those lives: I read once that the average lifespan of a weblog is around two months. Music blogs tend to last a bit longer – we are a tenacious, obsessive lot, and blogs with one or two year lifespans are not uncommon (may[…]

Links
A-Z of Europop: very useful.
Looking Askance From ’63: well-written and diverse MP3 blog.
Lots could be said about Simon R’s latest post – clearly we’re meant to hold our leftist hands up in horror and defeat at the ment[…]