“Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable, or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?” Good question. I’ve asked it myself for years; John Cusack phrases it neatly in the first minute of High Fidelity. But then he […]

In lieu of any real content on NYLPM today, more reports from the indie rock zineblog warz. Pitchfork drops its fence-sitting policy and disparagingly quotes Splendid. Well and good. But Pitchfork of course never links to anyone (‘cos they thin[…]

Now that’s what I call a British invasion: truly it gladdens the soul to see the Now! albums finally making their way to America, though of course by now they’ve sorted the packaging out, and so American twentysomethings will miss out on […]

Saturn.org has bloggerized his rockin’ song of the moment feature, and here are several MP3s provided by him, for you. CAUTION: They are all indie rock.[…]

I’d guessed that former members of Kula Shaker had fallen low, but even so I was astonished when I got into work this morning and was told by my boss that an ex-Kula had just been interviewed for a job here. No idea who it is yet (it’s no[…]

Congratulations to kitschbitch for getting a mention in the CMJ and all, but reading their article on weblogs, with the footer “New Music” at the bottom, I can’t help but feel that they could have tried a little harder to find some […]

“What does ‘back door man’ mean? asks Nanette? Well, yes, on the face of things it means anal sex. But it’s also a time-honoured metaphor for cheating – wanting to be “your back door man” means wanting to hav[…]

digital music weblog: of the several weblogs that have sprung up documenting the reluctant evolution of the recording industry, this is probably the best, with incisive summaries of relevant, well-chosen links.[…]

A Pitchfork Review of the Cale/Conrad/etc. release which we’ve been going on about so much here. A byline I don’t recognise, so probably the work of a new reviewer, one making a break with P-fork tradition by having the first two paragrap[…]

josh quotes this from a rec.music.classical thread:
Let’s do a thought experiment. You have sixty seconds in which to choose the woman with whom you will share the rest of your life and fortune. You must choose between two equally beautiful wom[…]