Zepwar!: Fred is a good friend and a perceptive listener, but his logical faculties seem to have deserted him here. I don’t dislike Zep because they rock too hard, silly, I dislike them because they don’t rock enough: I like my rock fast,[…]

I’ve finally updated the archives. And! We have some new team members, though a few of them have been new team members for quite a while now and haven’t posted anything…! But Pete you’ve already met.[…]

Splendid gets in the first review I’ve seen of the new Godspeed You Black Emperor! album. Cleanly-written stuff from Editor George Zahora, with the basic message that if you liked their other stuff, you’ll like this, and if you didn&#8217[…]

Simon Reynolds provides a quick once-over of the current electronic music scene. It’s uninspiring stuff, because Reynolds sounds so uninspired himself by all the micro-genres and scenes he’s so briefly covering. Younger critics are starti[…]

R is for…..”Rock And Roll” by Led Zeppelin.
What on Earth can you say about Led Zep? Well, you can say first of all how ridiculous they sound, how ponderous and overwrought. In 1970, souping up the blues with earth tremor drums and […]

Transatlantic web-newsreader and all round voice of dystopian future Ananova has come up trumps with not one but two female solo artiste based newslets. First it the somewhat embaressing suggestion that FilmFour are offering people their money back i[…]

Do you really want to hear a cutesy indie band cover “The Thong Song”? No, I thought not. But if your curiosity gets the better of you then you can find such an item here (in the “frightfully new” section).[…]

Happy Birthday To Us: sort of. NYLPM is six months old, which seems to be rather a long time in the ever-changing world of online pop sites. It certainly feels like months longer. Thanks to the contributors and just as importantly to the readers, and[…]

WHAT WE PLAYED AT THE 90s INDIE NIGHT FROM A SLIGHTLY MORE SOBER PERSPECTIVE
It would appear that Tom below went to a different Indie night to the one I appeared to be DJ-ing with him at. Mind you the amount of booze imbibed would bamboozle the best […]

WHAT WE PLAYED AT THE 90s INDIE NIGHT
As requested by Rebecca on the forum: not in order, and only about half complete (my memory of Friday is a wee bit patchy). The crowd loved it, honest.
THE GOOD
THE SHAMEN – “Love Sex Intelligence&#82[…]