Why I Don’t Want Free Records
A while ago on an ILM thread I talked about there being two kinds of writing about music. The first is basically consumer-guide writing. You write a review of a record, grade it if you have to, and try to make the […]

British indie music saved (again)! That’s the idea, anyway — the papers (here’s one typical review) have been going mad for The Coral. They didn’t sound too bad from the write-ups, either. I like to be told what to like, somet[…]

Clearly we deplore lists and polls here at NYLPM but let’s face it most of these singles here are bloody good. Yes there’s a nostalgist bias but the records are generally the kind of records you approach for nostalgic reasons and leave wi[…]

Attention Jess! (And interested other parties) – the Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar track I wrote about here is now up on the GrokePile. As usual, you have to have a FilePile account (or have access ot one), to download. I am thinking of doing a[…]

Daniel Beddingfield (aka Bedroomeyes) has finally got a new single coming out. And unsurprisingly it sounds a bit like Gotta Get Thru This, with its jerky garage production – this time dripped in all sorts of whizzy-banging effects noises. Its […]

Flaskaland: this looks excellent.[…]

THE BUGGLES – “Video Killed The Radio Star”
Cheap Eighties Nostalgia right? You listen this to remind yourself of high school.
But it is deeper then that, it is about the relentless push forward modernism. He listens to the wireles[…]

Coming back yesterday from Elk Island with my friend from Victoria, we sang “Blake’s Jerusalem” and “Should I Put My Sail to Rest” in the Kingsfold Tune and other hymns. She has a lovely crystalline alto, and it is a pl[…]

DJ MARKY – Tudo
Some guitar wankery and a beat. The beat is not hard enough to be house or techo, its not nearly fast enough to be jungle and not dry enough to be electro. Thats it, not other instruments nor other parts, just the wanky guitar[…]

The fifth and final part of the Pinefox’s Jubilee Stuff leads off a four-article Freaky Trigger update, which has quite unintentionally turned into a kind of indie rock then-and-now themed special. Representing the NOW, we have David Howie&#821[…]