“I didn’t realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry” (actually I’ve read a lot worse).
Sorry for the brief NYLPM hiatus, a mixture of circumstances within and without my control.[…]

DAA on MMM: Dancing About Architecture takes a (two-part!) look at Lou Reed’s up-middle-finger classic Metal Machine Music. The first part examines – yawn – the context: speedfreak conceit? performance art gag? contract-buster? seri[…]

Thousand continues tortoise-like to its end.[…]

Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire & Beyond – not that I own Nuggets I, but pop archaeologists will likely be happy to see this primer hit the market – and check out some of those titles! “Dance Round The Ma[…]

“Certainly not that one who looks like a pig with a Lulu haircut”: just click it. No commentary of mine can add anything to this, or its sister article, though No Rock And Roll Fun, where these links are swiped from, provides caustically […]

Metafilter is a vibrant and exciting forum when it comes to discussion of politics, technology and, um, itself. However when the subject turns to music it is reliably useless.[…]

Why is the font so small you cockfarmer?: Josh Blog is back. Did you hear me? Josh Blog is back![…]

PETE BARAN AND SARAH CLARKE – “Paranoid Android”
Live performance, the King Of Corsica pub, 4th May 2001.
Karaoke is the final destination of pop, the point where the gap between song and listener rubs thinnest. In the space karaoke[…]

Pitchfork Reviews Kirsty MacColl: 7.0 is about right – the self-congratulatory tone Richard M Juzwiak takes over his faint praise is all wrong. We know you don’t like melodrama, Richard, we could have guessed that from your dismissal of &[…]

Radio Plus gives you Emm! Pee! Threes! of stuff that John Peel is playing. All the usual suspects including Most Annoying Song Ever “I Have The Password To Your Shell Account” by Barcelona, the band who make Baxendale look like Kraftwerk.[…]