Simon Reynolds provides a quick once-over of the current electronic music scene. It’s uninspiring stuff, because Reynolds sounds so uninspired himself by all the micro-genres and scenes he’s so briefly covering. Younger critics are starti[…]

R is for…..”Rock And Roll” by Led Zeppelin.
What on Earth can you say about Led Zep? Well, you can say first of all how ridiculous they sound, how ponderous and overwrought. In 1970, souping up the blues with earth tremor drums and […]

Transatlantic web-newsreader and all round voice of dystopian future Ananova has come up trumps with not one but two female solo artiste based newslets. First it the somewhat embaressing suggestion that FilmFour are offering people their money back i[…]

Do you really want to hear a cutesy indie band cover “The Thong Song”? No, I thought not. But if your curiosity gets the better of you then you can find such an item here (in the “frightfully new” section).[…]

Happy Birthday To Us: sort of. NYLPM is six months old, which seems to be rather a long time in the ever-changing world of online pop sites. It certainly feels like months longer. Thanks to the contributors and just as importantly to the readers, and[…]

WHAT WE PLAYED AT THE 90s INDIE NIGHT FROM A SLIGHTLY MORE SOBER PERSPECTIVE
It would appear that Tom below went to a different Indie night to the one I appeared to be DJ-ing with him at. Mind you the amount of booze imbibed would bamboozle the best […]

WHAT WE PLAYED AT THE 90s INDIE NIGHT
As requested by Rebecca on the forum: not in order, and only about half complete (my memory of Friday is a wee bit patchy). The crowd loved it, honest.
THE GOOD
THE SHAMEN – “Love Sex Intelligence&#82[…]

A Chance Meeting With Nurse With Wound: courtesy of Josh, a superb 1981 interview which makes plain the link between listening to far more records than is in any way normal, and making the kind of sounds NWW make. It also explains why there’s t[…]

Realkosh: An Australian Music Weblog: mostly about Aussie music, it says here.[…]

watching high fidelity last night i was all ready to disagree with tom’s piece on said movie. i’d held off on reading the article because i wanted to see the film with a clear mind. (hmm, yes, that sounds like a good excuse.) imagine my s[…]