Troubled Diva is playing a game comparing ‘this week in pop’ across the decades, with a sort-of megamix for each day. Great idea, well executed. Currently the 1960s are winning: a shame I think as my own pop researches suggest that 1964 w[…]

PopNose V2.0
NYLPM is four years old today, and it’s time to freshen up the format a little bit. What I’ve decided to do is bring PopNose, our MP3 blog, onto NYLPM. Hits ahoy! But PopNose itself wasn’t without its problems, which is[…]

Fluffy Dub! Reasons to love Kelis’ “Trick Me”.
1/ Dancehall borrowings in R&B are a wonderful thing but lifting your groove from pop-reggae is more unusual and – yay! – more fun too.
2/ Kelis’ delivery of th[…]

The Breakfast Club Night can be counted a success, I reckon. We had a devil of a time getting the decks sorted out but once that was out of the way everyone had a good time. The venue – The Chapel in Islington – is a good one, just the ri[…]

One of the most enjoyable English lessons of my youth was watching Joe Macbeth, over two legs. Perhaps the teacher thought that the updating to a gangster milieu would make the complexities of the Scottish play more relevant to his rabble of fourteen[…]

wive$watch:
kyle takes up bareknuckle boxing and noah is doing rent boys YAY – except not: i so wish this was actually not like swimming through nearly dry fishbone glue, cz it cd be fast and funny
i know it fits the hyperwealthy milieu&#8217[…]

My boyfriend and I have been obsessing over Luomo. A glorious mixture of deep house and microhouse that in a way reminds me of The Culture Club and, uh, Indian food. What I love best about music and food is when the different elements seem to blend a[…]

Is a history of pop desirable? – is of course quite another question…[…]

Histories Of Pop Music: I started this thread as an oblique way of asking whether a history of pop music is even possible. I think it is possible, though fraught with difficulty – for one thing I have no idea where it would start. When were the[…]

If television has taught us anything, it is not surely this: “Spiders revolt and terrify us”
Shape up Channel 5, I hope you are not going dumb on me all of a sudden![…]