Uncertain, unfair and bloodthirsty: “Many people still think of folk as a music with a very obvious agenda, i.e., political protest, singalongs for kids, etc. But “Rock-a-Bye Baby” has always been about a baby falling out of a tree […]

Where is Duel?: Basically, doing Duel! of a morning was doing my head in. So from today I’m switching to putting it up in the evenings. The downside – or perhaps upside – of this is that I may, oh horror, occasionally be doing the p[…]

One of the wonders and terrors of Blogger is that it brings Usenet’s age-old ability to post in haste and repent at leisure to a webwide audience. Signal Drench Music Magazine is annoyed, and rightly, at the comment I made that the Top 100 list[…]

Sun Comes Up, It’s Wednesday Morning: well, sort of. And at the end of this trench-warfare day, two things. Firstly, I’m top of the power bloggers, which is embarrassing. And secondly, Barbelith lists his top 100 albums, which is cool. Ow[…]

They’ve finally stopped trying to have hits, which strategy could go two ways: that way, into grooveless pitter-patter test card cul-de-sacs, or this way, into cold European not-quite-pop, the after-image of pop on the back of your eyelids. &#8[…]

Warning! Inter-blog battle continues! (except I do actually think I’ve got more general stuff to say too)
us|against|them replies. For what it’s worth again, I thought the British music comment might be a gag, but you never know on the ne[…]

us|against|them – an indie music weblog yo “I really don’t understand why anyone paid this list any attention because it is SO obviously focused almost exclusively on British music”. Sigh. As the list’s author, I have no[…]

The Freaky Trigger Pub Meet: FT contributor Ned Raggett (who did the other Top Albums List on the site) is coming to London for reasons I dare not ask about. But anyway, and I know this is short notice, on Sunday 18th June we are going to meet up in […]

Marksimpson.com on The Man Who Murdered Pop “Morrissey had to become an unperson in order for the Nineties to happen”. This is quite old now, but I started NYLPM in order to link to stuff like this, so here it is, now. Is he right? No of […]

Marksimpson.com . Interview “I don’t think that Morrissey titillates a straight audience, I think he implicates them. Hence, openly gay Norton and Winton come across as eunuchs; Morrissey the famous ambiguous “celibate”, is de[…]