The Waifs -Tangled Up In the Blue (heard live at the Edmonton folk fest)
There is none of the irony that settles through the Dylan original, none of the anger that strikes you and none of the bitterness. The only thing left is a handsome man and tw[…]

Sugababes 101 – it’s faux-naif like Amy Phillips or someone but writing about actually good music! This is why Spizzazz is in my Top 10.[…]

Isabel likes booty bass music — the chatter, the rhythm, the smut. So I played her Peaches: she thought it was shrill, inflexible, unsexy. Maybe that’s the point, I started saying — I wanted to convince myself, too. It didn’t […]

V/A – Scumtron: A Tribute To Merzbow
My girlfriend (whose taste typically falls in a spectrum between Death Cab For Cutie and the Quad City DJ’s) had an unexpected reaction to this record last night. After explaining the “concept&#[…]

TATU – Ya Soshla S Uma
I knew this song was going to be great in the first five seconds of it, without even hearing any beats or music. The moment one of them screams in high-pitched unatural voice “YA! SA! SHLA! SUMAAA!” its like[…]

The Boards Are Dead – ILM and ILE are temporarily down. They’ll be back up, I’m sure, but meanwhile we’re getting ready to shift discussion to a new server. Here’s the alpha version for you to try out, designed by Graham[…]

DoubleAmericano: new music blog discovered via BlogTree where it was listed as NYLPM’s child! Blimey! I then tried to break BlogTree by having NYLPM’s grandfather Josh Blog also be its son but the site was having none of it. (Though this […]

Slim Swanee: context really is everything – one bootleg (“Marshall’s Been Snookered”, Slim Shady over the Pot Black theme tune) is a giggly novelty to anyone in the UK, but this article makes it a Marcus-ian marriage of song-a[…]

Here is an idea. Pick a date and select a record – more than one if you like. Make it a record you think you can write something about. When the date comes round, play the record and write as much or as little as you like about it. Then wait a […]

Tom’s Top Ten!
XINLISUPREME – “Kyoro”
MOCKY – “Fuck All Night”
DERRICK LARO AND TRINITY – “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough”
WIRE – “Germ Ship”
THE CORAL – “[…]