While I think it’s a very good idea for Tom@plasticbag to construct a fictional love life for himself, it might help if it wasn’t so blatantly centered around some sick Momus fantasy.[…]

Tangents wastes ten minutes gloriously with the Everett True Diaries. When I was little I rather wanted to be a music journalist: here’s yet more compelling evidence that not trying was quite a good move. Interesting reading for a certain type […]

Magic Bullets: I’ve long since given up trying to get intelligent letters, so I’m running the rude ones instead.[…]

Actually, no, one more entry – if you read NYLPM and like it, and are interested in contributing to it, then we are always interested in having you on board. There’d be no expectation of you posting anything very often, but we are a team […]

Metascene Presents: The 2000 Metascene MTV VMA Awards: I am very busy today. Busy busy busy. Who would have thought the German tyre market could be so exciting? Not me, that’s for sure. So nothing blogwise from me until the evening: meanwhile h[…]

DJ Martian’s Page: New music blog! DJ Martian keeps on sending me links, some of which I used but too many of which I didn’t, not because they weren’t quality links but because I am a lazy bugger. Now he has his own weblog and will […]

M is for….”My Before And After” by Cotton Mather, a track which has caused me a certain amount of grief, by being infectiously tricksy power-pop, a style I usually have great difficulty liking for all the reasons you might expect (c[…]

L is for….”A Little Knowledge” by Scritti Politti, the one good reason to shell out for Cupid And Psyche ’85 rather than just pick up the associated twelves in jumble sales as and when. A fluttery, trebly, precious production […]

A Conversation With Jessica Simpson….or, in fact, a new piece on Freaky Trigger, as ‘Jessica’ and I bandy around some more thoughts on teen pop and its various uses.[…]

Barmy Army: having said, oh, there’s loads in the Guardian today I might as well blog some of it. This is an excellent review of Alan McGee’s first offerings on his new Poptones label, identifying and parading the reasons why the whole la[…]