Some talk on the “blogosphere” about “Regressive Rock”, (80s schmindie-indie to you and I) particularly from K-punk and the resurgent Marcello. Broadly speaking Mark Kpunk is against it, and Marcello is if not wholeheartedly f[…]

My new blog[…]

Eloquent and angry response to Jim Robinson’s Irony And Its Malcontents piece. I think Jim R’s been slightly misread, though: he’s arguing for irony as a mode of listening, not the mode. In the case of Johnny Cash, eulogists have qu[…]

So What?
At some point a girl I used to know told Gordon from Ballboy she thought his band wasn’t ‘avant-garde enough’ for her taste. Fair enough: churning out sub-Gedge indie platitudes over jangling guitars is hardly Gertrude Stei[…]

One of the most annoying things about Radio 1 (leaving almost ALL the presenters out of the equation for the moment) is their insistence on telling you things OFFICIALLY. If it’s not the Official start to your weekend, it’s the Official s[…]

Whether or not we are taking the Carmody line or the Petredis line on this weeks Desert Island Discs, the programme was instructive listening to what Radio 4 deems acceptible. Yes, Nigela Lawson played Cleaning Out My Closet, possibly Eminem’s […]

Crisis Averted: we’ve found a guest editor for NYLPM. Two guest editors actually, who’ll get a week each. Who are these modern-day Herculi? One of them is American and has a weblog already, and one of them is British and doesn’t (un[…]

One Minute Record Reviews: featuring my mom.
Freeway feat. Peedi Crakk – “Flipside”: “This sounds like the music from Halloween.”
R. Kelly – “Snake (Remix)”: Mom: “What’s R. Kelly’s fi[…]

What I’ve Been Listening To[…]

Guest Editor Wanted: As you might know I’m getting married on November 1st, and I’ll be away for a couple of weeks after that. Popular will go on hiatus, and my co-editors will of course not be affected at all, so the other FT weblogs wil[…]