Byterock’s Greatest Hits: 2000 has so far seen a) a clutch of the greatest pop singles in listening memory and b) the mainstreaming of new ways of consuming and experiencing music. Byterock, roughly speaking, is where these trends intersect, wi[…]

Martin Popoff Interview “nerdy pasty pencil-armed white males that turn into critics are still worried about getting the girl well into their late twenties, something which new wave, alternative, and watery pop has always gone on about. These p[…]

Rare Personal Content On NYLPM: my resignation became official today, and it’s time for the NYLPM Quit Your Job With The Pop Stars round-up.
Perhaps most obviously we have “Frankly Mr Shankly” by The Smiths. I would fantasise about […]

Seized by a sick flush of horror I click on the 33 indie rock boy rules…sweet lord, what if I prove to be an Indie Rock Boy? Luckily that is not my destiny: I obey a mere two of these rules (18 and 19, since you ask). Hah! And a good thing two,[…]

NYLPM is not an indie rock weblog, but it does on occasion get mistaken for one, and I read most if not all of the indie rock weblogs out there. Some of them are very good indeed, and I have previously felt a swell of pride to count myself a member, […]

The Popbitch Message Board: Popbitch itself is entertaining enough, a weekly rolling London Babylon for the chartpop scene. But the Message Board takes things considerably further – how much is true? Is any? Is it all? Wash your hands after fol[…]

RareMusic on the Internet: Go. Play. Learn. Essential hipster education in smooth-rolling Flash-driven sound. My initial findings: the breaks on all those really old (pre-Cambrian school) hip-hop recordings sound like they were recorded in a graveyar[…]

Enough!: Burchill goes for Madonna’s jugular. “Music is a bad handshake of a record: limp, clinging, hard to shake off and leaving one with a distinct feeling of having been soiled by contact with a mediocrity so extreme it fair takes the[…]

The History of House: sprawling in its coverage, intelligent and thorough in its internal links, and with a superb range of external links too….this is one excellent site. Follows House from the late 70s to the present, and puts this still much[…]

Who would have thought that my temporary move to Surrey would result in rich local music news links? From sleepy (and horrible) Redhill comes the world’s fattest boy band. Ho ho ho.[…]