Why are you being so Hundred Reasonable now?[…]

NYLPM gets a smattering of mail every day concerning upcoming events, gigs etc. I’m going to try and actually mention some of them. First we have Plug n Play, a radically democratic club night from the people at Gabba.net, happening on Sunday a[…]

Music Swap Shop – this is a little something the mighty Alan put together to facilitate the offload of duff CDs, of which I suspect I have many. A quick trawl through a single shelf (the ‘indie’ bit of my now genre-ised collection) […]

LUDACRIS – “Saturday (Oooh, Oooh)”
Rhetorical question (the answer’s no): has there ever been a style of music so warmly suited to lazy summer hedonism as hip-hop? I may not have a big green stash and the pocketfuls of cash ar[…]

Tom’s Top Ten!
PITMAN — ‘Phone Pitman’
LOWELL BLANCHARD WITH THE VALLEY TRIO — ‘Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb’
EMINEM — ‘Without Me’
ELEPHANT MAN — ‘The Bombing’
CAPLETON &#[…]

EMINEM — ‘Without Me’
Granted, he’s not doing himself any favours with this ‘controversy’ nonsense. The c-word is best left to the tabloids and press packs; it always sounds mealy-mouthed coming from singers, thoug[…]

The Sixth Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group – here’s the ballot! Open to all comers (almost) – closing date for responses 9th June.[…]

HOLDING ON FOR TOMORROW
If you want to point the finger of blame at someone, Ronan Keating’s as good a target as any. To be crude about it, pop successes in the 90s have appealed to some combo of the four Gs – girls, gays, grannies and ge[…]

What I’ve been doing today: downloading tracks for the sixth Freaky Trigger Focus Group. A slimmed-down affair this time, with only 29 songs, but still the usual struggles to find half the tracks – and then to find the correct mixes of ha[…]

Queen classic named all-time favourite single – yeah yeah whatever, but look what’s at No.8! What curious persistence![…]