Guarding the Borders of the Hip-Hop Nation: I don’t normally link to NY Times articles because it’s subscription-only, but this is a great, sad article, coolly observational pen-portraits of individuals involved in personal and public str[…]

Who’s really ill?: “De La Soul are back and angry about hip-hop” claims the subheader, but really they’re not, just realistic and with the healthy cynicism of men who proved what they had to prove a while ago. Tom Cox (but of […]

The difference, though Ned, is that while Belle And Sebastian are overtly playing to and trying to foster some kind of clannish, fannish community, Eminem is virulently against his fans – in fact he spends vast tranches of The Marshall Mathers […]

Their new logo looks half like some horrible White Dwarf font, but that and the grim Pythonesque pseudonyms aside I like I N D I E S H I T E . I like it even though it’s slagged a friend of mine. I’ve never understood how being nicey to o[…]

“Corgan is a hideous amusical scab…”: It’s the final results of Duel! Thankyou for your patience. Watch NYLPM for further steamy band-on-band action.[…]

Oh come now, Celine’s not that bad! I suspect the readers of PTAHE! are voting with their ears rather than their eyes, for how else would that bleached goon Stefani be escaping righteous censure?[…]

I should go away more often. I am basically staggered by the quality and range of the contributions made to NYLPM while I’ve been in Greece, and I thank everyone who contributed. To them I say: I kiss you! And keep it up. To anyone else I say: […]

Big Orange Crayon: if you link to me, I will link to you – such has been the inviolable rule of the blog since it crawled from the pre-Cambrian (or pre-1994, same difference) slime. Those who respect it not are poseurs and finks. This rule appl[…]

I leave NYLPM in the hands of Robin, Josh, Fred, Greg, Ned, and Mike, who hopefully between them will be able to post at least something every day (pretty please…?!). Blue Lines will go into hibernation for a week, and I Hate Music remains in t[…]

DUEL! – The Final: this is it – Smashing Pumpkins vs Travis for the title of Worst Band In The World. A signed certificate of badness. designed by Al, will be delivered to the most convincing address we can find for the winner. Polls open[…]