For Pop Stars, the Same Old Song “Like Sting, Santana invites great guests – Lauryn Hill, Eric Clapton, Eagle-Eye Cherry”. That sound you hear is me chewing the flooring. And now you too can share my annoyance: I blog this for no ot[…]

Two more points about the Top 100 albums list.
i) I would happily swap every loud-but-melodic-indie-rock-songs-about-getting-dumped record in the world for one copy of Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque (#74), even if it doesn’t use any coo[…]

us|against|them checks out my Top Albums of the Decade list and finds it wanting. I’m not going to make any comments about Us V Them’s taste (or lack of it!) but I do find it interesting just how little common ground there is even among p[…]

Drawer B New Media Reviews: Records, CDs, MP3s, Movies, Websites, Concerts.: and what can I possibly add to that summary? The Mysterons at Drawer B write a good, eclectic game, and this is yet another fine music-related site I can’t believe I&#[…]

Recording Industry Seeks Immediate Shutdown of Napster – note involvement of poacher-turned-gamekeeper mp3.com.[…]

Beyond The Cataracts: “The trouble with Sondheim’s complaint about “recycled” culture is that all culture is recycled”. Not many links to stories on musicals in NYLPM, so let’s rectify that by eavesdropping on this[…]

Mosh-pit mania “Civilization is hard to kill, even in the pit. They a woman was gang-raped in front of the stage at Woodstock ’99, but that was three days into it.” – well, that’s alright then. I used to go down the fron[…]

Another 1993 single. 7 years is a weird timespan in pop: I’d suggest that nothing recorded at a given time will have the slightest influence seven years on. It’s too late to react against, far too late to build on, but too early to canoni[…]

DUEL! – ROUND 2: today it’s Moby vs Weller.
And yes, the archives are on the right. Sorry.[…]

Skratch Piklz to retire: “Yogafrog said he and colleagues Qbert, D-Styles and new member DJ Flare will train with an unnamed musician whom they describe as someone who “shared with us the most beautiful way to express scratching.”&#[…]