josh writes of Yo La Tengo’s cover of “Little Honda”: “The beauty of the song is that it takes a pretty rinky-dink Beach Boys song (sorry, Fred) about a guy and his motor scooter, and turns it into a shoegazeresque drone.&#822[…]

There is one very obvious way to attack “Imagine”: you can accuse John Lennon of hypocrisy. He had, like, loads of money, and yet he was singing “Imagine no possessions” Isn’t that ironic, man? This argument was pursued […]

AAARGGGH! Would someone please tell the Top Of The Pops producers to make sure the kids only clap on the 2nd and 4th beats of each bar? Yeah, I know it’s petty but surely I can’t be the only one annoyed by it? Some of those studio audienc[…]

Inspired by this (via Katie and Josh)….
THE NYLPM GUIDE TO DATING INDIE ROCK GIRLS
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Oval: Ovalprocess: Pitchfork Review “Try listening to Brian Eno’s Music for Airports in choppy RealAudio. Hear that? Digital clicks, random bursts of static, and underwater compression swim over icy electronic drones, numbing your mind in[…]

You want to know an overrated record? I’ll show you an overrated record – John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band, an embarrassing forty-minute therapy session paid for first of all by the mugs at his record company and secondly by punters f[…]

Uberzone’s sound – dry-tinder breaks and acid sizzle – is hot weather music. More accurately, it’s music for places where nothing but heat matters, great open desert places where you don’t even need to shimmy, ’cau[…]

DUEL! – ROUND 2 – the final round 2 conflict, between Richard Ashcroft and the Manic Street Preachers.[…]

The Spice Girls (whose official site is frankly shoddy) have unilaterally declared the 1st July Girl Power Day. But why? I hear you ask. What momentous occasion does that day mark? Well. The 1st July marks the fourth anniversary of the release of &#8[…]

The miscredited MP3 problem not only leads to ignominy for Freaky Trigger, but (far more importantly) leads to extreme annoyance for me. Perhaps Napster should have a rule whereby any incomplete songs should be removed from the owner’s shared f[…]