josh writes of Yo La Tengo’s cover of “Little Honda”: “The beauty of the song is that it takes a pretty rinky-dink Beach Boys song (sorry, Fred) about a guy and his motor scooter, and turns it into a shoegazeresque drone.&#822[…]

Inspired by this (via Katie and Josh)….
THE NYLPM GUIDE TO DATING INDIE ROCK GIRLS
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Oval: Ovalprocess: Pitchfork Review “Try listening to Brian Eno’s Music for Airports in choppy RealAudio. Hear that? Digital clicks, random bursts of static, and underwater compression swim over icy electronic drones, numbing your mind in[…]

Uberzone’s sound – dry-tinder breaks and acid sizzle – is hot weather music. More accurately, it’s music for places where nothing but heat matters, great open desert places where you don’t even need to shimmy, ’cau[…]

DUEL! – ROUND 2 – the final round 2 conflict, between Richard Ashcroft and the Manic Street Preachers.[…]

The Spice Girls (whose official site is frankly shoddy) have unilaterally declared the 1st July Girl Power Day. But why? I hear you ask. What momentous occasion does that day mark? Well. The 1st July marks the fourth anniversary of the release of &#8[…]

It’s a concept album about the Great War which is better than The Final Cut: you couldn’t have dreamed of such a thing but hey, Piano Magic have pulled it off with Artist’s Rifles, or so sez Tim. By an astounding synchronicity I bou[…]

An unforeseen problem with the hot new MP3 tradin’ technology is that a spelling mistake on one MP3 file can rapidly spread around the whole net. Hence the error Greg points out – my bootleg copy of “Thong Song” is proudly cre[…]

The English Motorway System: Thoughts on Luke Haines: “Haines is the sort of songwriter you need in any country” – a new piece on Robin Carmody’s Elidor site, an interesting look at Haines’ work with the Auteurs and Blac[…]

Lambchop: Nixon: Pitchfork Review “In the plainest terms possible, Nixon is a record for grandmothers and hipsters.”. Pitchfork turns its attention to Lambchop – good review, somewhat harsh. I agree that Nixon doesn’t really m[…]