The Village Voice…or Pitchfork?: barely a week after I start raving about their music section the VV goes all indie rock on me with a big double review of crypto-pop sensations Clinic and Icelandic hippies Sigur Ros, both of them bands which th[…]

Allsound.org – Beautiful Sounds and Difficult Music: this is an excellent idea, a Slashdot-style collaborative music weblog. It focusses on “difficult music”, never a term I’m happy with, but it looks interesting and deserves […]

Long and fascinating interview with Keiji Haino. Worrying Jim Morrison worship leads to self-doubting questions re. Haino fandom.[…]

All the kids love Charlemagne P, so here’s a review from Ed Pinsent’s beautifully designed printzine Sound Projector, which covers all the avant-garde stuff you need to know about – krautrock, minimalism, japanoise, underground post[…]

John Cooper Clarke is how we will start things off this evening: lyrics to all his poems, which sound better as songs, but it’s nice to have them anyhow. Clarke’s an underrated figure, master of the internal rhyme and the only ‘punk[…]

Sigue Sigue Sputnik interviewed: the word “cyberspace” sounds a bit naff, doesn’t it? They always did try rather too hard.[…]

Charlemagne Palestine: this is the last time I’ll be using NYLPM to announce a new article, so make sure you sign up to the list below (or check FT twenty times a day, I won’t stop you).[…]

Review of ‘The W’ from ukhh.com: cheap lavatorial entertainment. Also, the funniest blog in the world.[…]

Yet more admin: at least one Freaky Trigger reader is unable to access the freakytrigger.com bits of the site – I’m trying to work out why this is (most people still seem able to) but if this is affecting you, my apologies.
Also, I’[…]

DUEL II! – Duel Of The Dead: learn who won out of Jimbo and Phil (not difficult) – and vote in the second pair-off.[…]