Tom’s Top Ten!
UNKNOWN – “Lisa’s Got Hives”
SONS OF THE PIONEERS – “Old Man Atom”
CUTTY RANKS – “Wake Da Man”
THE BAND – “Whispering Pines”
WYCLEF JEAN – &#8220[…]

Where did the music go?: you’ll probably all have seen this Jaron Lanier essay, if you’ve been browsing the sidebar links here – it’s been talked about in Michaelangelo Matos’ and Nate Patrin’s blogs and probably s[…]

Fischerspooner say UK gigs will ‘eclipse’ Star Wars: pop band in dry ice machine shocker![…]

George W Bush ‘is stalking me’ – Moby: why famous people should not be allowed websites.[…]

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[…]