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[…]

It Is Shaggy!: for obvious reasons we do not normally blog the chart news, however it is worth noting and gloating over the Manics’ positions. Their “gamble pays off” according to dotmusic: yeah, they’ll be delighted with 8 an[…]

People Talk Too Loud! is a new(?) site with an indie rock focus but it approaches the subject with a certain amount of humility, is nicely designed and seems – so far at least – to be article-focussed, which is refreshing in the review-ha[…]

Two bits of admin:
– now I’ve got a proper archive sorted out it’s time to work on NYLPM’s first ever redesign. This means a much-expanded links list on the sidebar, among other things. So if you run or know of a good, regular[…]