More admin stuff: I’ve finally updated the music articles page and will try and keep it up to date from now on. Forty-five or so pieces – something there for everyone reading NYLPM, I’d guess. Looking over the list I’m frankly[…]

LINK WRAY – Batman
Some people used to suggest that Batman and Robin’s relationship was improper. Can you believe it? These people claimed that Batman had lured a troubled young man into sinister vigilante activity, regularly exposing him[…]

Reader Response: Already we put the results of the Readership Survey into action. Somebody wanted more Belle And Sebastian, somebody else wanted more long articles – and this is, yes, a long article about Belle And Sebastian. It’s also fu[…]

Non-Music Thing: To the person from the University of Idaho who came to NYLPM and H-Clicked me, and asked why H-Click could be a hassle…..well, because it sometimes goes offline and throws you out of the chat and makes me look really rude. And […]

There’s a couple of new things at Tangents – an article on grammar pedants, and an interview with Fosca which admits from the outset it’s not that interesting, and I have to agree. But there’s also a front-page piece by Alasta[…]

Log On, Tune In, Drop Out: finally some interesting thoughts on the impact online music will have on how we listen to and socialise through music. Michelle Goldberg is gloomy – internet radio is solipsistic and unlikely to create a community, a[…]

The Freaky Trigger Readership Survey: it shouldn’t take more than five minutes and it’ll be really useful to me! Thanks.[…]

HARDchord.com – Top 40 Like a Bullet to the Head: is a new music site, which claims a “major aversion to radio-friendly music” but the best column in its first issue is about N’Sync, and the second-best mentions the Spice Girl[…]

Also in Mojo we learn that Frank Black has a new album, Dog in the Sand, on the way. So what? you may ask – but on this album Mr. Black has upped the production after years thrashing about in his faux-garage, and he’s also recruited one J[…]

Love’s anatomy: stop sniggering at the back, boy, it’s an interview with Stephin Merritt. Heard most of it before, but I gleaned a few more details about his musical: “It’s a successful invasion from Venus in the form of a pre[…]