A Merry Christmas To All Our Readers[…]

The Best Of UK Garage 2000: Tim reviews the year in garage, a fine piece which has been linked on the front page for a couple of days now but of course me being me, and crap, the link didn’t work. Now it does.[…]

But as I say, I have been re-reading the josh blog, which celebrates its first birthday next week, and I will be at home and not posting when it does. So I thought I’d say now that for one thing a year is a fucking long time to be writing about[…]

I have been reading through some josh blog archives and I saw to my horror that Josh slipped the Divine Comedy’s milky “Generation Sex” past me at the end of a month. Now then, I came to NYLPM to praise Josh and not to diss him, but[…]

A Loafer’s Discourse is about Kirsty MacColl today. Sort of.[…]

Napster Nazis Nobbled: Eurolaw vs the Internet, again. But what’s this? “Napster’s usage Ts&Cs prohibit the use of the service for the exchange of material likely to incite violence.” Now then, it seems that quite a lot o[…]

You should go and read wolf 359‘s neat memoir of his days on the pirate FTP underground. Like most world-changing scenes, then, the Napster Nation has cooler, more dangerous, precedents: I like this, it gives things a feeling of legitimacy. Rol[…]

Melody Maker Remembered: from, unexpectedly, Salon – this is ex-writer Cath Carroll writing elegantly about why the music papers mattered.[…]

27. BACKSTREET BOYS – Shape Of My Heart
As he steps out of the shower and starts to pat down his wet hair Alan finds himself humming a song he can’t quite place. It’s something he heard on the radio, quite serious and tuneful, but t[…]

Kirsty MacColl dies in boating accident. I’m not sure if NYLPM is the place to announce this, especially considering that only last night in the pub I was doing my usual schtick about Kirsty MacColl on backing vocals equalling end of career (th[…]