New soul generation dominate American Music Awards: yes yes all very well but “Best Internet Artist: U2”? Best Internet Artist? What fresh nonsense is this? If they’d wanted to reflect what the Internet actually likes (god help it) […]

I Hate Music Archives: this evening’s labours have been putting Tanya’s weblog in some kind of alphabetical order. It’s all* there, from the first tentative disses, through the page’s frequently hilarious golden age, to last y[…]

Pub Etiquette: Playing Catch-Up. This practise – ordering multiple or very strong drinks in an attempt to catch up to your co-drinkers in inebriation terms – is bad form. It makes you look vulgar at best, a medical case at worst. That sai[…]

Mochi Manifesto: another one for the sidebar (eventually) – music blog by Honda of ILM regularity, with a semi-focus on electronic sounds. Which is always good to see, especially since we neglect them cos the joke potential is low. Meanwhile yo[…]

Come on Back Eileen: Blimey is this some kind of meme? Anyway Barry Walters reviews the new No Doubt and the new Smash Mouth as part of a call for the return of happiness to rock. Hard to deny the appeal of happy, funny music though (i) I’m not[…]

As a final bit of community service, I’ve updated the NYLPM Archives – every review from May last year to today now nicely alphabetised and linked, and though in memory it was a fallow patch there’s some grand stuff there. Thanks to[…]

More From The FT Archives – I’ve replaced another three old articles. First of all there’s Tanya Headon’s “My Lover The Record Collector” – except now is the time to make a confession. This wasn’t actua[…]

ARE Weapons – “New York Muscle”
Meanwhile here’s what New York is up to (Paris and Munich updates surely due from our foreign readers). A.R.E. Weapons play semiharsh electro-rock in the style of Suicide, with maybe a bit of ea[…]

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The terrorists have won.: still it sorts out my list problem.[…]