Pretty much as soon as I started Popular I decided to mark each song out of ten. I had a few reasons for this. I’d not really written reviews with marks attached before and thought it might enliven things a little. I had been reading EDGE magaz[…]

Now I remember why I never linked David’s blog before – there’s something about it which fucks up the browser bar and makes it impossible to keep the screen still. Fingers crossed this doesn’t happen on your machine cos it loo[…]

The MP3 Party: go back to your file-sharers and prepare for government. (via Cha Cha Cha)[…]

“Conscious Estrangement”: I am linking to this because it’s very nice about me, oh yes, but also because I don’t quite agree. Firstly I don’t think ‘we’ have had any impact beyond the individual level –[…]

Restate My Assumptions: another music – well sometimes music – blog. He doesn’t like the Coral, he writes a lot about the Gentle Waves, he’s young, it looks good.[…]

The publog returns with a thorny question – nay, accusation – of pub etiquette breaches against one of its number. The question boils down to this: in a group gathering when no table is available, is it permissible to hand drinks to anoth[…]

diskant – “a network of websites by independent fanzines, bands and record labels”, based in Glasgow and included here because it’s doing a good thing and because I want to make more effort with my links sidebar and this serve[…]

Why I Don’t Want Free Records
A while ago on an ILM thread I talked about there being two kinds of writing about music. The first is basically consumer-guide writing. You write a review of a record, grade it if you have to, and try to make the […]

British indie music saved (again)! That’s the idea, anyway — the papers (here’s one typical review) have been going mad for The Coral. They didn’t sound too bad from the write-ups, either. I like to be told what to like, somet[…]

Clearly we deplore lists and polls here at NYLPM but let’s face it most of these singles here are bloody good. Yes there’s a nostalgist bias but the records are generally the kind of records you approach for nostalgic reasons and leave wi[…]