A Loafer’s Discourse is about Kirsty MacColl today. Sort of.[…]

Napster Nazis Nobbled: Eurolaw vs the Internet, again. But what’s this? “Napster’s usage Ts&Cs prohibit the use of the service for the exchange of material likely to incite violence.” Now then, it seems that quite a lot o[…]

You should go and read wolf 359‘s neat memoir of his days on the pirate FTP underground. Like most world-changing scenes, then, the Napster Nation has cooler, more dangerous, precedents: I like this, it gives things a feeling of legitimacy. Rol[…]

Melody Maker Remembered: from, unexpectedly, Salon – this is ex-writer Cath Carroll writing elegantly about why the music papers mattered.[…]

27. BACKSTREET BOYS – Shape Of My Heart
As he steps out of the shower and starts to pat down his wet hair Alan finds himself humming a song he can’t quite place. It’s something he heard on the radio, quite serious and tuneful, but t[…]

Kirsty MacColl dies in boating accident. I’m not sure if NYLPM is the place to announce this, especially considering that only last night in the pub I was doing my usual schtick about Kirsty MacColl on backing vocals equalling end of career (th[…]

I’m not sure if it’s up on the website yet, but the NME has picked Queens Of The Stone Age’s Rated R as its album of the year. Now, Rated R is not a great album – it rocks along in a fun way, but the hooky promise of the best […]

The Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group, November 2000: why oh why do I do this to myself? Anyway, here we are – thirty-six pages of commentary, critiques, and crudities on the last six months’ singles. Swearier than ever! Thanks to ever[…]

It’s the most talked-about feature on Freaky Trigger: Am I Cool Or Not? is back with its fourth brave/vain/idiotic/delete-as-neccessary pop kid for you to analyse, taste-wise. I’ll sort out the archives soon for latecomers.[…]

The Onion’s A.V.Club is always an interesting read, though with such a high-brow and snobbist tendancy that you certainly would not take anything they say without a pinch of salt. That said, they do revel in talking about bad things. After last[…]