I prefer Mary(b)lin(g) Manson – ho ho ho see what I did there did you see?
(Arses)[…]

Hear’Say say ‘NO FIX’!!! And do we believe them readers? ‘Plain facts’ include the news that audtions were filmed by ITV2 and therefore you will SEE if it’s a fix or not!! Don’t you SEE?? Are you BLIND??
In […]

CLUB SUSSED IS BACK
If you don’t know about this already, you might not know that Club Sussed is the name of the club run by the estimable Carsmile Steve and No-Nickname Pete, at which Steve and I are the resident DJs. It used to take place eve[…]

A big thanks to boom selection (which would be in the urgent and key sidebar if my template editing wasn’t crashing the browser – in other words GO THERE) for alerting us to the King of The Boots night last night – most fun I’[…]

Return of The International Pop War. Ian at Bleeding Ears has brought back the feature that inspired the Freaky Trigger anti-Charlotte Raven comparison of the charts of 2000 and 1981 here . OVer the next couple of weeks he will be taking the UK and […]

(A fairly desperate attempt to restore some reviews of actual current and forthcoming singles to NYLPM begins…)
CORNERSHOP – “Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III”
A sub-circle of pop hell is surely reserved for songwrite[…]

STRIPEOUT!!!! If you love old school style computer games and the White Stripes (imagine that Venn diagram if you will) then you can play Stripeout, a new online game from the White Stripes. The two-piece have thought of this absurd gimmick to get a […]

What is this nonsense! REM and No Doubt to play at a celebration of Bono gig. Let me get this straight. This is not a gig for humanitarian causes, it is a gig to honour a humanitarian, in this case the old puffed up, pompous leather sofa of rock hims[…]

And so – as Sarah notes below – surely the fact that Johnny Henshall is dating Lisa Steps – would make the world cry out FIX. Can we really be led to believe that Johnny (pro dancer that he is and ex-member of top tweny no marks Boo[…]

Welcome Johnny Shentall to Hear’Say! Or don’t cos he looks EVEN ORANGIER than Ricky Martin and Enreekie Iglesias (that’s what they call him in Scotland) sharing the Love That Dare Not Speak It’s Name! Urgent and Key Facts. Joh[…]