THE SHAKESPEARE: Victoria Street, W1
Big mainline stations tend to operate under some secret local government bylaw which states that all pubs within 5 minutes walk of them must be awful. Even when a station-proximate pub approaches a state of relati[…]

Do you really want to hear a cutesy indie band cover “The Thong Song”? No, I thought not. But if your curiosity gets the better of you then you can find such an item here (in the “frightfully new” section).[…]

Happy Birthday To Us: sort of. NYLPM is six months old, which seems to be rather a long time in the ever-changing world of online pop sites. It certainly feels like months longer. Thanks to the contributors and just as importantly to the readers, and[…]

WHAT WE PLAYED AT THE 90s INDIE NIGHT
As requested by Rebecca on the forum: not in order, and only about half complete (my memory of Friday is a wee bit patchy). The crowd loved it, honest.
THE GOOD
THE SHAMEN – “Love Sex Intelligence&#82[…]

A Chance Meeting With Nurse With Wound: courtesy of Josh, a superb 1981 interview which makes plain the link between listening to far more records than is in any way normal, and making the kind of sounds NWW make. It also explains why there’s t[…]

Realkosh: An Australian Music Weblog: mostly about Aussie music, it says here.[…]

I’m off until Sunday afternoon: if my fellow team members want to take up the slack, you may have something new to read anyway. Otherwise, have a good weekend![…]

Loving and Leaving the Phonograph; or; Napster for Record Romantics. Well-written overview of what Napster means for the way we consume and listen to music. Two points leap out.
First off is the way Harry Smith’s Anthology Of American Folk Musi[…]

Help me with an urgent question on the I Love Music forum, why don’t you? The 90s revival starts here…..[…]

According to this article, some scamster in the States has published a diet book which makes use of pork scratchings (or ‘pork rinds’ as they are even less tastefully called over there) in its recipes. So sales of scratchings to dieting w[…]