VH1’s 100 Greatest Dance Songs: mostly disco. I like over half of these but some of the ordering is curious, the 70s slant predictable but sorrowful, and there are a few unforgiveable turkeys, i.e. “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie[…]

And a warm NYLPM welcome to Maura, our newest team member. Proof of her rockin’ musical credentials, if proof be needed, can be found with this L.A. Guns review. L.A. Guns, dude.[…]

W is for…”Where On Earth Is Kevin Shields” by PS I Love You. A long and little-spoken-of tradition is here continued: the indie novelty single. Always on 7″, always a one-day-wonder in the press, always but always about anothe[…]

Rock’n’Roll middle School is a piece on Meltzer and Marcus and rockcrit in general which starts well and then just seems to tail off halfway, its story only started and its questions unanswered. It points out, quite reasonably, that all t[…]

Indie Kids in Canada and Britain: a cross-cultural clothing comparison, of sorts.[…]

Two Musical Moments a.k.a. listening to music in the MP3 age, again.
1) Walking home by the millpond, listening to ISAN’s “Betty’s Lament” on my Rio. Slow, simple, pretty electronica with a kid naming the planets: on the left […]

Progressive rock sought to expand the language of rock music, and also to raise its artistic game until it achieved some kind of wider acceptance within the grand narrative of ‘proper’ artistic achievement. The successes and failures of t[…]

“Damn you, Tom, I want singles reviews, not this tipping the wink to everyone with the wit to HumanClick you! And reviews of proper singles, too, not some nonsense by Piano bleedin’ Magic.” If this is your attitude, dear reader, go […]

A nice fellow chatted to me on HumanClick and asked me to put a link to his band’s (nicely laid-out) homepage. So here it is: there are nine of them, and there are live MP3s too. Go visit.[…]

It’s Tanya’s birthday! Help her celebrate by rating her at bloghop. And if you look around a bit you’ll find almost every other weblog we run or link to listed there, too, including – on-topic bit here! – a whole page of[…]