ATN Is Dead, Long Live ATN: as Kathleen says, did anyone read ATN much? Still, it blazed some kind of trail and maybe us amateur hacks owe it something for that. I’m more interested in the news that it’s hiring Simon Reynolds to do a hope[…]

Guarding the Borders of the Hip-Hop Nation: I don’t normally link to NY Times articles because it’s subscription-only, but this is a great, sad article, coolly observational pen-portraits of individuals involved in personal and public str[…]

“In Bloom”, surely, rather than “Come As You Are”? “And he’s the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun, but he knows not what it means,” and so forth. […]

Who’s really ill?: “De La Soul are back and angry about hip-hop” claims the subheader, but really they’re not, just realistic and with the healthy cynicism of men who proved what they had to prove a while ago. Tom Cox (but of […]

The difference, though Ned, is that while Belle And Sebastian are overtly playing to and trying to foster some kind of clannish, fannish community, Eminem is virulently against his fans – in fact he spends vast tranches of The Marshall Mathers […]

Thankfully living in Orange County it doesn’t apply — apparently in my absence Orange County hosted another big radio rock festival thing. Korn and Limp Bizkit played! Eminem was going to play but had to make more money elsewhere! Moby […]

Their new logo looks half like some horrible White Dwarf font, but that and the grim Pythonesque pseudonyms aside I like I N D I E S H I T E . I like it even though it’s slagged a friend of mine. I’ve never understood how being nicey to o[…]

“Corgan is a hideous amusical scab…”: It’s the final results of Duel! Thankyou for your patience. Watch NYLPM for further steamy band-on-band action.[…]

no rulebook, my ass: perhaps i should post that e-mail i received detailing all of the rules for posting to nylpm, all of the dos and don’ts. basically, if you’re thinking of posting here, be prepared with either a review or a link, or fa[…]

Lonyo – “Comme Ci Comme Ca (Summer Of Love)” – all over your FM radio
Laconic as hell and sexy as fuck. If the UK Garage explosion means my pop is as lovely as this then bring it on. No intellectualising here (hey, it’s […]