ARMAGEDDON IT?
Various quotations pulled from an Essay On Rock & Roll Lyrics (as found on Rockwisdom.com):
“… [M]usic can be used to create and promote industry. Contemporary music provides numerous business opportunities for musici[…]

Hank Shocklee Seen Outside Def Jam Offices: “Will Produce Thundering Wall Of Sound For Food.”
Terminally out of step, Chuck D and his attendant hangers on (I wonder if they still call themselves the “Security of the First World&#822[…]

While we’re talking lists and such…
“The Best Albums Ever…Honest” is a list by Wire critic and Telstar Ponies main man David Keenan. It’s problematic (aren’t they all…) because it falls squarely betwee[…]

A rock version of Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas is a long-cherished project of mine. Like most of my long-cherished projects, somebody’s gone and done it while I sat on my arse: hats off to Jonathan Valania for this magnificent[…]

Freaky Trigger Needs YOU: a while back I was planning to redesign NYLPM and turn it into something different, and I wanted writers. Several people got in touch. Then all sorts of bad things happened and the project fell apart. But now NYLPM is back o[…]

So Solid Crew recruit more members: thirty was not enough. One of them is Trigger off TV’s Only Fools And Horses! Possibly. Also Romeo is to release a solo single called “Where For Art Thou Romeo?”, which has Romeo’s rapping b[…]

Peggy Lee, RIP – new on FT, by Elisha Sessions, forgot to link to this last night.[…]

Flute Watch – update: As I have deemed this the year of the flute it is my duty to notify you of another big flute tune doing the rounds. Dance For Me, by Mary J. Blige has another great use of this most lilting of instrument. Well, okay, it mi[…]

YOU KNOW, FOR KIDS
It’s very difficult to remember the music you heard when you were a kid. I’m not talking about the music that was playing. I’m talking about the music you heard. Twenty years on I know that I was allowed a record […]

The Gossip live – and also Peaches live – in this weeks thrilling themed FT update. (No, that’s right, it’s not the Strokes special. Patience, O Readers).[…]