Maconie’s Critical List: apparently some people still don’t own any Big Star albums. Maconie is going to tackle this crisis in schoolmasterish fashion. I have long had a soft spot for the man – he after all wrote the review of Win&#[…]

Kill All Hipsters: these ones seem nice, though. Browsing tips: search for a year in the 1960s, download what they recommend. Search for 2001 and avoid what they recommend if you value your brain. Via Scrubbles.[…]

Everybody Loves The NYLPM Mailbag: focus group time is upon us soon and with it come nutters searching for songs on Google. To whet your appetite here’s a little something from the mailbag about Mr. M. Manson (who we were quite nice to actually[…]

Pitchfork Gets Candid: “Okay, let’s be honest here: I know jack about techno. I’ve never really understood the DJ disc concept, and all the artists on this CD (Sniper? Narco Dogs? General MIDI?) are new to me.”[…]

AIR – “Radio#1”
Air are beautiful boys with Utopia in their eyes – “With love, melancholy snipers will become flower gun users” they tell us, and whyever shouldn’t we believe them? Their “Radio #1&#8221[…]

Ladies and Gentlemen the triumphant return of…Am I Cool Or Not?[…]

In these enlightened times when almost everybody has a favourite Backstreet Boys song it’s both saddening and strangely heartening to note that in the shadowy corners of popular culture there still lurk people carping about the Monkees being ma[…]

Indie Rock Porn
No, seriously. It is. Over 18s only. You will be amazed to see an XXX site – actually it’s barely half an X – with all the defensive snobbery you know and love from your favourite zines (“for men who actually g[…]

Bangsheet: vaguely punky (the word I use when there’s a picture of Lester B on the front page and I’ve not heard of 50% of the music under discussion) webzine whose focus is on having writing that’s as interesting as the music is. A[…]

Thankyou Swish Cottage for reminding me of this: now I just have to find my own copy.[…]