The Ten Most Annoying Music Genres: from Liv4Now.com’s bafflingly titled ‘Humour’ section comes this list of genres, several of which blatantly do in fact exist (special NYLPM mention if you can come up with bands in all ten, or may[…]

Splendid E-zine: 14 Books You Might Find In Stephin Merritt’s Bathroom: best link I’ve found in days, particularly as it’s actually serious. Kind of.
Subliminal message to readers: BUY 69 LOVE SONGS BY THE MAGNETIC FIELDS.[…]

Common: Like Water for Chocolate: Pitchfork Review – so here’s a question, following on from Tanya’s Marvin Gaye dissection in IHM. Is the idea of ‘soul’ – whether as genre or innate musical quality – actuall[…]

Ivor Novello awards: The winners: “Best song musically and lyrically: Strong – Robbie Williams. Lord have mercy.[…]

Rage Against The Machine: Ned Raggett discusses the popular political band, from Freaky Trigger.[…]

DUEL!: and this morning’s competitors, The Bloodhound Gang and Paul Weller.[…]

orsomething.: it’s a blog, not specifically about music – in fact not at all about music – but with a lot of back-and-forth debate over the MP3s/Napster issue. And the people involved have a working web bullshit-detector, always a r[…]

Machine Age: Net Loss – cool analysis of the MP3 situation. As I was saying earlier, bad news for record shops. (link via Fred, who offers a bit more analysis too).[…]

Blur join row over MP3: mostly worth reading for the arrogant comments by a Jeepster spokesman. (Without internet piracy, incidentally, I would not now be into their most profitable band, whose records I have been buying in shops, rather than, as pre[…]

Campaigners fight for axed Radio 1 DJ Andy Kershaw: my knee-jerk reaction to Andy Kershaw’s sacking is “Oh, that’s a shame”, especially when you compare Kershaw’s easygoing, affable style to the on-air posturings of slug[…]