ANDY PARTRIDGE – Candymine (Demo)
ANDY PARTRIDGE – Prince Of Orange (Demo)
One reason XTC took their business from Virgin to Cooking Vinyl was Virgin’s rejection of a bubblegum-pop concept album Partridge had cooked up. The label &#[…]

steal this blog!: steal this idea, more like! as erstwhile nylpm contributor Fred Solinger launches into his 20 best songs of all time. I have it on good authority that he is part of a shadowy organisation that has pop in its iron grip, so you should[…]

Some Excursions into Sonic Fiction: from Mediamatic magazine, a long interview/discussion with Kodwo Eshun, author of ’98’s firestorming More Brilliant Than The Sun – check the bits on the new R&B, Hype Williams, etc – ex[…]

Metallica, how could you?: romantic nonsense c/o Salon, a hymn to the good ‘ol days of tape trading. While I treasure my mixtapes I’m far more enlivened by MP3 swapping and the instant-discussion options opened up by e-mail, and what&#821[…]

Lee Hazlewood: Cowboy in Sweden – Fred’s been pushing tracks from this excellent country-baroque album my way, and now Pitchfork review it. There’s also a review of it at motion —+, and you can read up on “THE REAL CREAT[…]

I was probably one of the last kids to grow up with parents who reckoned, unequivocally, that pop music was trash. Being liberal types they never stopped me listening to it, but there was a clear and unbreakable aesthetic line between pop music and &[…]

This is footling: an essay/gripe about how sad the lead character in High Fidelity is, which promptly confuses fiction with reality and decides that a recognisable and amusing caricature of the collectormentality must actually stand for what all reco[…]

Hey Hey Hey! NYLPM seems to be getting hosts of (undoubtedly one-off) new readers thanks to a link from the mighty western homes. Come on in, you know you’re welcome here! But to find out whether or not you want to stick around, here’s a […]

PAUL VAN DYK feat SAINT ETIENNE – “Tell Me Why (The Riddle)” (Deviant Records CD Single)
Couldn’t have put it better myself, frankly. Saint Etienne’s output over the last couple of years has been desperately erratic, swi[…]

The Suit: theatrically written, but still misery-inducing look into the life of a record industry executive (thanks to Doug).[…]