CLEARLAKE – “Don’t Let The Cold In”(CD Single, Dusty Company)
Clearlake’s singer can’t, to get that out the way. But as everyone knows there are good non-singers and bad non-singers: Mr. Clearlake sounds like Billy[…]

Napster Bombs: that said, who needs lots of links when you have one as good as this! Hilarious. Thanks to Chris.[…]

Minimal updates of NYLPM today because all my energies have been spent on the Bad-Karma-fest that is I Hate Music. Not that I write any of it, you understand, but editing Tanya’s ravings for libellous material is a time-consuming process. Anywa[…]

Modest Mouse: The Moon & Antarctica: Pitchfork Review: two things come out of this review. 1) Pitchfork will lay down for any album with “thick” production values. 2) Brent DiCrescenzo is a much worse writer dealing with a record tha[…]

Duel!: as promised, it’s interactivity time. A different poll every day, building into a knockout competition to decide who is the worst band in the world today. Vote early, vote often. This is Monday’s Duel, incidentally.[…]

We have an update! Freaky Trigger launches its Bad Music issue with a frankly incredible cover picture by my insane brother, and two new articles – a musing by me on growing up with parents who hated pop, and a howl of despair from David Naylor[…]

What to tell your parents about the history of electronica: what an amazing title for an article. Sensible 1997 primer, intelligently written and attractively laid out – and it isolates the way the problems with marketing the music were dressed[…]

Pop Rock Music And Mind Control: BEWARE! Thank goodness he’s never heard Coil, eh readers?[…]

Kids parents, and Music: Josh was asking in e-mail a while ago what music children could be played to make sure they, as it were, grew up right in music taste terms. This article would argue, I think, that it’s just sponsoring the interest of t[…]

REAL PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC. dada, surrealism, kitsch, LSD…: by Chris Bickel, ‘King of Epinions’, a Nurse With Wound review. (link via Sparky’s Rumpus Room)[…]