Welcome Johnny Shentall to Hear’Say! Or don’t cos he looks EVEN ORANGIER than Ricky Martin and Enreekie Iglesias (that’s what they call him in Scotland) sharing the Love That Dare Not Speak It’s Name! Urgent and Key Facts. Joh[…]

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[…]