The Princess of Risk: why Aaliyah mattered. Not that you, o readers, need telling – but it’s nice to see the Guardian saying it.[…]

Many Thanks to everyone who’s responded to our plea for help below – I’ll be getting in touch with more details before the weekend, hopefully. Or at the very latest on Sunday. Your e-mails have not gone ignored![…]

ILE Double Live: This is me singing loud and clear. Well, loud, at any rate. Various forum regulars, and Beth out of The Gossip (see forthcoming feature!) sing their hearts and livers out at karaoke. Get it before the lawyers do.[…]

Tanya Headon returns with an account of where she’s been, and a level-headed assessment of those sizzlin’-hot New Yorkers the Str – oh, you know.[…]

WANTED: Writers (also design help and illustrators) for Freaky Trigger’s new daily section. Pop sympathies, fresh opinions, good jokes preferred. Must be willing to contribute something, however brief, on a weekly basis. Current NYLPM contribut[…]

New archive additions on Freaky Trigger: MJ Hibbett on local bands. Ned on Charles Schulz. Sterling on Americana. Me on 1977. Otis on John Fahey. It’s nice to have them back.[…]

CLARENCE CARTER – “Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street)”
HEFNER – “I Stole A Bride”
Something missing from pop, maybe: a sense of sin. Sins we have in multitudes, of course – red-capped anger, ice-wris[…]

Nostalgia For The Present Time: a thread. I can remember nothing about January and February this year. What on earth did I do?[…]

Why We Write About The Strokes: So, OK. Neumu which is a big online altzine covers the Strokes who are an altband you might have heard of, yes? (Here’s what I thought of them) Neumu wuvs The Strokes. Reader writes in, and is sick of The Strokes[…]

Second rule of FilePile is YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT FILEPILE: oops. Anyway not that I’m condoning MP3 trading but I thought I’d point out that this fellow seems to put up files regularly which chime rather well with the NYLPM worldview.[…]