Link not from Guardian shocker! PopJustice is back with the Slipknot Calculator! Bonus points for their mention of 2 In A Tent vs 2 In A Room, a pop puzzler which has kept us occupied in the pub for what seems like 7 out of the last 8 visits.[…]

Free lunch with the net bandits “The American book trade (which has since gobbled up ours) is founded on a century of napsterising” – another day, another MP3 musing.[…]

Metallica’s New Album is Napster-Proof: rockin’! My index and little fingers are twitching already. With lyrics of the caliber of “T3 lines they are my bane / Evil Napster I wish you never came.” (has Slorta Vileblade joined t[…]

The Weekend Stops Here: a radio show run by a nice person who HumanClicked me after reaching Freaky Trigger via a search for the Magnetic Fields. Hooray for the Magnetic Fields! So I promised him a link and here it is. If you’re in the Cambridg[…]

You are Invited: I was indeed invited to link to this Dismemberment Plan site. An e-mail to NYLPM pretty much guarantees a link at some point, even if that point is the point in the far, far future when I clear my inbox out. I won’t add much in[…]

if music be the food of love, there’s a lot of weird lolita-complex types out there.: The Smashing Pumpkins broke up because they’d been defeated by the ‘Britneys of this world’ (sadly not in an actual Arena Fight). Here is a […]

If you want to understand where NYLPM’s coming from, consider this: the first time I heard this song I would have forgiven it anything, for the line “music mates the bourgeoisie and the rabble”, which sets Madonna up as the Marie An[…]

DUEL!: Electronica (koff koff) comes to Duel with a Moby/Fatboy Slim set-to.
In other pedantic admin news, the focus group deadline’s been extended to accomodate a couple of people who didnt have time to do it this week. If you want to vote in […]

Every breath they take…: “The domination of mainstream hip-hop is a triumph for sampling in the same posthumous way that the Eagles’ Greatest Hits becoming the best selling album of all time would be a triumph for the nomadic spirit[…]

Let me count the ways: it’s a review of 69 Love Songs, from the Guardian. And it’s appropriately awed.[…]