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[…]

Attention Jess! (And interested other parties) – the Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar track I wrote about here is now up on the GrokePile. As usual, you have to have a FilePile account (or have access ot one), to download. I am thinking of doing a[…]

Flaskaland: this looks excellent.[…]

The fifth and final part of the Pinefox’s Jubilee Stuff leads off a four-article Freaky Trigger update, which has quite unintentionally turned into a kind of indie rock then-and-now themed special. Representing the NOW, we have David Howie&#821[…]

The Jubilee Stuff – the fourth and penultimate section.[…]

Let’s Push Things Forward: if people are going to keep on talking about acid house, then a crucial point to remember is that over here the acid fuse wasn’t lit by the records, it was lit by the clubs – Balearic Beats, as the style w[…]

The Jubilee Stuff – part three.[…]

Who Needs Eminem? – apart from its odd conviction that an Australian rock band can tell us anything much about how British bands think and work, Christian Hoard’s piece is a pretty fair summing-up of the British rock (and rockpress) dilem[…]

“Ours is better silence: it’s digital. Theirs is only analogue.”: more on current top music news story, Cage Vs Batt.[…]

pearls that are his eyes: a very welcome return for Kathleen (my current longest-standing mixtape debt, in a highly competitive field). First Josh Blog comes back , then Vain, Selfish, Lazy, now Pearls…it’s like 2000 all over again! Surel[…]