It was easy. It was cheap….: well, free, actually – a bunch of music apps that YOU TOO can use to produce joke IDM versions of popular rap hits![…]

From weekly to weakly: Observer overview of the music press which really infuriated me when I read it on Sunday but now doesn’t, making this rather a feeble way to start a day’s NYLPM posts I suppose. Not that this is a good article &#821[…]

This Heat – “Cenotaph”
Cliches For A Reason: Not Knowing What Else To Do, Singers Sing Songs About 9/11 is an article @ the Village Voice by Douglas Wolk about sifting through a mountain of tapes culled from a call by the Voice for […]

Hear’Say accused of ‘beardism’: apparently in their search for a replacement for Kym Marsh Hear’Say have been turning away people with beards. They have now been accused of beardism by the Beard Liberation Front. To fans of th[…]

POP-EYE 3/2/02
Oh pity the poor Pop-eye writer in the first three months of the year. No chart stability, a deluge of faceless no-mark new entries slapping in the top ten making the column long (and certainly longer the new NYLPM enforced limit of 50[…]

PAVEMENT — ‘We Dance’
My birthday was this past Saturday. I actually woke up around my official birthtime (7:34 AM EST) to the sound of my alarm clock bleating spitefully at me — ‘You moron, why’d you set your ala[…]

TEN SONGS WHICH WERE NOT WRITTEN BY THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS… is an I Hate Music special, now restored to its proper article status as part of a Freaky Trigger update. Also up we have the first C90 Go!, a series where writers review compilations in[…]

And why we’re talking FSA…they’re not playing, but their spirit of outrider psychedelia will be in full swing this October 10-12th at the 5th Terrastock (the mostly-annual festival of the Ptolematic Terrascope.) It’s back in […]

Flying Saucer Attack — ‘Sally Free and Easy’
My grandfather passed away this morning. The only reason I can sit here now (thoughts as collected as can be I suppose) writing in a pop weblog is the fact that his passing had been &#82[…]

This weekend’s soundtrack – for me at least.[…]