Fillums eh? Tom claims to know not much about them, but I think its merely because its a difficult critical beast to muster. Writing about films already has a number of critical paradigms, there are degrees in the stuff – wheras degrees in Musi[…]

(I’m not entirely happy with this Le Tigre reviewlet but pending articulation of whatever else is kicking around my head re. the band I’ll put it up anyway….)
LE TIGRE – “Deceptacon”
Do you want new wave or do you […]

More FT news: there’s a selection from our bulging mailbag here; there’s an article on Foreigner and the eighties’ legacy here which looking at it may be the best thing I’ve written in a while; and if you’ve not been rea[…]

Playlouder’s Top 50 Singles Of The Year: a good job thoroughly done, and little enough to quibble with. If the NME could still be arsed to cover singles properly, it could run this and keep the target market and the old bores alike fairly happy[…]

Now the publishing thing seems a little smoother a few more words on those Tangents articles – Everett True contributes a lengthy and fascinating Dexy’s Midnight Runners interview which, awkward pauses and all, reads like the Don’t […]

In Close Proximity of a Muppet: hey, it’s his tagline, not mine. Anyway this is agenbyte.com: it’s a weblog with a decent splicing of good music links included.[…]

Tangents is back with a terrific range of articles. Sorry about the brevity of these entries but the publishing isn’t quite working out today.[…]

Hey, look! A Hand! What’s it doing? Whoa, it’s feeding us! That’s cool! We’d better bite it![…]

Before I head off for New Year’s, another anniversary – tomorrow marks the first birthday of Elidor, NYLPM contributor Robin Carmody’s music’n’culture website. Which, obviously, comes highly recommended.
And it being the[…]

I’m sorry, other things got in the way and so here is – contrary to the new contributors’ guidelines – a list without commentary! Links are to the original reviews, where applicable. Unreviewed songs will hopefully get their d[…]