Plug and play: “I can’t turn on the TV without hearing Moby. I just go ker-ching, it’s Moby yet again…” – John McGrath, head of Mute Publishing. Interesting article on the bald, safe one’s current ubiquity. A[…]

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – “The State I Am In” (MP3)
Oh Heaven help me, I like Belle And Sebastian.
To fill you in: I heard Belle And Sebastian three years ago (the If You’re Feeling Sinister album) and disliked them. I disliked t[…]

urbansounds >: much as I hate the trendy use of the word ‘urban’ to refer to electronic music this is a gorgeously designed site with some very interesting looking features on a ‘minimalism’ theme. Ignore the music review sect[…]

Detritus: Josh wanted a one-stop shop for sampling/cut’n’paste culture on the web, and that’s what Detritus is. Get yer Plunderphonics here! And in response to his Moloko comment – apparently that’s the chat-up line the […]

The Fakeways Institute is Momus’ latest wheeze. Beware the flashing lights, those of you prone to headaches or fits. Everyone else dive in! (My partial take on fakeness and authenticity: here, and yes Josh, I will reply to your comments on it o[…]

Viva les Blemishes!: “If you were to collate a list of the first 50 singles put out by Rough Trade, I would aver that any label would be hard pressed to impress me more. There is such an incredible mix of inventiveness and edginess”[…]

rockcritics.com: of all the hem hem thousands of links I’ve received, this gives me the greatest honour. What a fantastic idea for a site: I shall pay tribute by stealing all their links.
This is as good a time as any to mention that the Octobe[…]

Rebel without a brain: review of Eminem live, from The Guardian. Apparently it’s bad or silly or something for “upper middle class” people to like Eminem – why this should be so goes, as usual, unexplained, possibly because wh[…]

The Battle For English Soul: shhh! it’s a secret! This piece won’t ‘officially’ go on the main FT page until tonight (i.e. when I’ve found a picture for it), but readers of nylpm get a look at Robin Carmody’s epic […]

New on Freaky Trigger: a review of Lambchop’s Nixon.[…]