LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS – “Why I Love Country Music”
“We feel fine / We’re killing time / Well what’s the crime?”
One of the first pieces of music criticism I remember reading was a cold dismissal of Ll[…]

Elidor bows out (temporarily, we’re assured) with some of its best-ever pieces. An essay on the Skitz album, Countryman, which has been getting heavy and well-deserved net buzz; a review of Eve’s Scorpion doubling as frenzied personal wri[…]

Thousand: with another special mystery guest star![…]

Sonicnow asked for a link and a link they have got – indie-ish e-zine with interviews and features.
Other stuff – there’s still two-and-a-half hours to demand that NYLPM/me reviews a song for you. One track each please – for p[…]

N’SYNC – “Pop”
Pop’s not dead. “Pop”, though, is barely twitching, a patchwork of modish elecro tics (yea even unto the bitchin’ treated guitar) sewn together by N’Sync’s hamster-tough singi[…]

Stopsmiling reviews Amnesiac, and I can’t say much more about the article than that it’s generally lucid and I kept nodding my head when reading it. Also from Stopsmiling, an entertaining sort-of-interview with The Clientele, which brough[…]

It’s Self-Pimping Time: NYLPM readers might have noticed a lack of reviews here lately. Well spotted, o my sharp-eyed readers. I’ve got pop-writer’s block and can’t think of anything to say about anything very much. So what I&[…]

A perhaps over-generous review of Hairy Butter’s album. HB when I saw them did indeed look – and dress – like “sneering aesthetes”, so that’s probably part of the point. But in a 95% worthless set there were three […]

Records Ad Nauseam: “We pick records and write about them….some of us are trying to be Simon Reynolds, some of us are trying to be Lester Bangs…”. To which I can only say – welcome aboard, shipmates.[…]

ILM Post Of The Day (from MJ Hibbett, two down. Sorry for missing your gig, Mr. H.)[…]