Troubled Diva is playing a game comparing ‘this week in pop’ across the decades, with a sort-of megamix for each day. Great idea, well executed. Currently the 1960s are winning: a shame I think as my own pop researches suggest that 1964 w[…]

PopNose V2.0
NYLPM is four years old today, and it’s time to freshen up the format a little bit. What I’ve decided to do is bring PopNose, our MP3 blog, onto NYLPM. Hits ahoy! But PopNose itself wasn’t without its problems, which is[…]

Fluffy Dub! Reasons to love Kelis’ “Trick Me”.
1/ Dancehall borrowings in R&B are a wonderful thing but lifting your groove from pop-reggae is more unusual and – yay! – more fun too.
2/ Kelis’ delivery of th[…]

The Breakfast Club Night can be counted a success, I reckon. We had a devil of a time getting the decks sorted out but once that was out of the way everyone had a good time. The venue – The Chapel in Islington – is a good one, just the ri[…]

Is a history of pop desirable? – is of course quite another question…[…]

Histories Of Pop Music: I started this thread as an oblique way of asking whether a history of pop music is even possible. I think it is possible, though fraught with difficulty – for one thing I have no idea where it would start. When were the[…]

At the last Club Freaky Trigger I played my Nuclear Doomsday set, a collection of atomic tat that drew heavily on a bunch of 40s and 50s MP3s I’d scarfed off a sharing site a year or two before. Now I have taken the chance to make an honest fil[…]

What happened to Doomlord’s mask?
(Dez Skinn is too harsh on photo-stories here I feel. If anyone wants to see a full-on feature on the 80s Eagle revival with its photo-strips, just let me know… or it might happen anyway…)[…]

Read Misty online!! – lovingly detailed site dedicated to Misty including reproductions of the original issues! Even if you don’t have time to look at the reprints at least check out the cover gallery.[…]

Girls’ Comics: Dragged screaming from the K-Punk comments box, this link leads to an excellent essay by Miriam Hurst on the British girls’ comics of the 1970s. Hurst makes intelligent points though you can’t go far wrong in this ter[…]