if attali cd hear us now
a street-by-street guide to london noise (via the everlovely map room)[…]

FT !P!O!P!sclusive!
Last night, your NYLPM correspondent was happily drinking cocktails in a bar in London’s trendy London when who should walk in but BLUR. And when I say BLUR I mean real actual classic BLUR, with reformed COXON! All four or[…]

TEDDYBEARS STHLM – “Cobrastyle”
There’s a long thread on ILE at the moment about the demerits of iconic faces on T-Shirts, to wit Nico who is apparently on some new New Look gear with the ahistorical slogan “Chelsea Unde[…]

Pete’s fine attempt at a Busted comic (see below) prompts this vital question over at I Love Comics. I’d never really given it much thought before but it seems odd that there was never a Beatles comic, or a Bay City Rollers comic, or a Mo[…]

Go! Go! Go! to Enthusiastic But Mediocre where you will find me getting into a FITE with some European pop music from the land of the Moomins.[…]

VISITATIONS
Visitations
ANNIE
Anniemal
Good lord last week was busier than I thought when it came to work, and then when I went home I either had committments or didn’t want to write much or anything. So hurrah for what may or may not be a bri[…]

I’m proud to present the third batch of CD treasures for re-housing. If you want to see the list of items, go to TMFD and click on the link below the totaliser. If you want to see them in their full glory, follow the links below:
Frankly not ev[…]

(As drawn when drunk at the Pop Justice 20 Quid Music Prize, and later lettered and cleaned by me – cleaned both physically and one offensive joke about the fella from McFly removed. Though Busted were robbed.)

(With thanks to Steve Mannion fo[…]

MAUL MY MEMORIES II
If I was the sort of person who posted to ILM here is a thread I would post: “Things you knew would be ‘cult bands/albums/records’ the moment you heard them”. The clumsy phrasing of that suggests that I hav[…]

POP FACTOR: 774 CONTROVERSY RATING: 190
Girls Aloud take their mockabilly strut a little too fast, there’s a lockstep urgency to the rhythm that makes the fun more frantic by giving you the feeling they’re just a trip away from falling […]