Is Pitchfork Mail losing its touch?: a highlight of the reading day reduced to pretending to be Limp Bizkit fans in order to provoke indie kids? The mailbag must be running low! Come on readers – help Pitchfork out! Write a letter! Demand more […]

JiffySquid on Sigur Ros: “Is it a powerful experience because the entire package, from the glowing embryonic figure on the cover to the cryptic lyrics, dictates that it must be powerful?”[…]

The International Pop War (a belated mention): while obviously rigged (how come we got the dodgy version of “Stutter”, eh?), Ian’s piece is still a very fun read. The UK charts wouldn’t be any fun, though, if they were all goo[…]

Speculation is hitting frostbite pitch about the NYLPM redesign. I can’t say too much mostly because it’ll be like all other redesigns i.e. a spot of orange and some in-jokes in the source code. However I can tell you that we’ve bee[…]

More Indie Detente. Some of you may well be coming here hoping to find stuff by our newest team member Nanette. Well, there isn’t any. Yet. But a massive welcome to Nanette anyway, whose well-known weblog I’ve been reading a while now. It[…]

A gentle reminder to those people taking part in the NYLPM birthday celebrations. The deadline is March 15th. Cheers. And to the people who have got stuff to me, a very big thankyou.[…]

Am I Cool Or Not?: it’s the highlight of your week, I know. Another verdict, another subject.[…]

Go and read this. All of it. Twice.: if, that is, you’ve got any interest in writing about music now. Rockcritics.com have outdone themselves this time. If you want to just read one bit, go here and scroll down to Frank Kogan’s comments.[…]

I HATE MUSIC: Tanya is back with her weekly dose of loathing – taking on George Formby, Forever Changes, Mods….and the first ever reader music submission![…]

OK, OK, we are an indie rock site: analysis of the 236 reviews posted on NYLPM since its inception yields the following genre breakdown:
Indie – 38% (includes punk, post-punk, grunge, indie pop and indie rock from the mid-70s to now)
80s-00s Po[…]