Icestock: Wired reports on Antarctica’s burgeoning music scene.[…]

I have been ordered to write about the Duke of Devonshire and being a good girl I am doing just that. The D of D is sort of between Clapham and Balham and therefore not necessarily somewhere you would expect to find a splendid pub (it being more of a[…]

WE ARE POP: An evening out in a well-known London hostelry with some of the Tangents crew, the ice being broken when the Freaky Trigger boys (me, Pete and Al) demonstrated their total pop supremacy by getting the £10 jackpot on the Top Of The P[…]

Sorry about the lack of action round here, but quite obviously our excuse is we were in the pub. And what pubs. Over the next week you will be regaled with tales about men with hats, another pub deadly sin and some South London boozers. But first a c[…]

Yo, Simon Reynolds! He’s kinda got a point, eh?[…]

“if you think the concept of hip is dead all it means is you’re not hip anymore,” i was told today. and just now i came across “the kids are alright” from the washington post—almost out of the semi-lucrative, after […]

“Jesus, it’s the inner sleeve of “Goo” all over again”: oh no, it’s just the collection of postcards from makeoutclub.com. POSSIBLE PRE-PUBLICATION CHECKLIST: obligatory references to pop culture from the 1970s (&#[…]

Crown of Trinkets — yes, you read that right. And it’s a blog, though it hasn’t linked to this one yet. I, however, as a member of the NYLPM team aggrandize myself by linking to it as it is the newly founded blog of my friend and […]

Rap Snacks: it’s hip-hop crisps! But of course it is. (via The Null Device, whose tagline I am so jealous of.)[…]

Interview With Gail O’Hara, who does legendary ‘zine Chickfactor. Oh, the toils and trials of the fanzine writer’s life! Nuff respect but her distinction between ‘zines (fab groovy gear etc.) and her vision of the Internet, wh[…]