Congratulations to kitschbitch for getting a mention in the CMJ and all, but reading their article on weblogs, with the footer “New Music” at the bottom, I can’t help but feel that they could have tried a little harder to find some […]

“What does ‘back door man’ mean? asks Nanette? Well, yes, on the face of things it means anal sex. But it’s also a time-honoured metaphor for cheating – wanting to be “your back door man” means wanting to hav[…]

digital music weblog: of the several weblogs that have sprung up documenting the reluctant evolution of the recording industry, this is probably the best, with incisive summaries of relevant, well-chosen links.[…]

A Pitchfork Review of the Cale/Conrad/etc. release which we’ve been going on about so much here. A byline I don’t recognise, so probably the work of a new reviewer, one making a break with P-fork tradition by having the first two paragrap[…]

josh quotes this from a rec.music.classical thread:
Let’s do a thought experiment. You have sixty seconds in which to choose the woman with whom you will share the rest of your life and fortune. You must choose between two equally beautiful wom[…]

Here’s a comment from Sundar Subramanian about the Cale/Conrad/MacLise/Young/Zazeela Day Of Niagara release, which I was raving about last week.:
“as a big fan of new york minimalism i was surprised that you seem to have got way more out […]

THE CLASH – White Man (In Hammersmith Palais)
I don’t like the Clash very much. You can probably guess why: Strummer’s prolier-than-thou bark, all that keep-it-real stuff, their very incarnation of the no/sell-out discourse that kee[…]

Elizabeth Wurtzel explains why she loves Britney Spears: As sure as night follows day I’m going to link to this predictably unsatisfying piece on Britney. I’ve never read anything by Wurtzel which hasn’t stated the obvious, though u[…]

now, tom, i think the truth about “busby berkeley dreams” lies somewhere between your two interpretations. robin is correct in saying that it’s a beautiful song about “a simple and uncritical faith in the concept of love&#8221[…]

Fluffy Bunny Sparkle Cloud Raves: Peace, love, unity and respect! Ban all drugs now. (via Pearls)[…]