As a final bit of community service, I’ve updated the NYLPM Archives – every review from May last year to today now nicely alphabetised and linked, and though in memory it was a fallow patch there’s some grand stuff there. Thanks to[…]

More From The FT Archives – I’ve replaced another three old articles. First of all there’s Tanya Headon’s “My Lover The Record Collector” – except now is the time to make a confession. This wasn’t actua[…]

ARE Weapons – “New York Muscle”
Meanwhile here’s what New York is up to (Paris and Munich updates surely due from our foreign readers). A.R.E. Weapons play semiharsh electro-rock in the style of Suicide, with maybe a bit of ea[…]

Is it Be With Me by Mis-teeq or B With Me – even the bands website is not clear how it wants to spell it. Spelling aside I had a chance radio encounter on the bus (the best place to encounter new music) and it made me break out in a broad grin.[…]

POP-EYE 6/1/02
What an inauspicious week to restart Pop-Eye. However we start as we mean to go on in the year 2002 (palindromic which must be good – just like that classic pop year 1991). Let me explain, pop music sales work a bit like a sawtoo[…]

The Secret Of Our Success: classic cheap excuse for weblog content alert! Here’s what people are coming to Freaky Trigger looking for:
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The terrorists have won.: still it sorts out my list problem.[…]

The much-touted FT Relaunch has turned into more of a rolling project – what you’ll see there is the skeleton of the site, and we’ll be adding new articles, features, and design elements as 2002 gets going. For starters, four new ar[…]

Backstreet Boy Arrested. Of course a certain kind of rock station morning jock would follow this up with some sort of gag about crimes against music, but this is NYLPM. We have a soft spot for the Backstreet Boys, as previous “Shape Of My Heart[…]

LISTLESSLY LISTING
I’m in my bedroom / office / apartment — clothes intermingle with compact discs and books in a disheveled orgy of non-productive capitalism. I’m looking at a contentious article recently published by Salon.com, w[…]