“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[…]

One fabulous reader suggested to me that NYLPM run, for its American readers and those Brits who affect not to be interested in the Top 40, a weekly column on the charts. So here it is:
POP-EYE: 1/10/00
Actually a frankly inauspicious week for the fi[…]

Just Drifting: Situationism and Rock: via Pearls, a pretty basic overview of the links between, well, situationism and rock (links which indie punk boy rockers down the ages have been far keener to emphasise than the situationists, it needs be said).[…]

V is for….”A View To A Kill” by Duran Duran, because I heard it the other day and thought how modern it sounded. Well, no, modern’s the wrong word, but its bombastic synthchestral stabs, jerky rhythms, et cetera sounded like a[…]

The Friends Of Rachel Worth: my review of the new Go-Betweens album.[…]

Popcentric covers all your pop linking needs, with site owner Brad scouring the web for links and commentary on Britney, Jessica, the Backstreets, N’Sync, etc. etc. Nothing on Daphne And Celeste, alas.[…]

Can it be???
“Well it was just another day at the Evening Session studios. After my brilliant show – featuring spleen in session – finished I went off to Underworld in Camden to see kickstool bollocks in concert – they were ma[…]

U is for “U.G.L.Y.” by Daphne And Celeste. Excellent records are often extremely difficult to write about: this is not an exception. Daphne And Celeste put the Smurfs, the Shangri-La’s and the Sequence in the same Laff-A-Lympics tea[…]