"08/09" from XL promises stellar year in releases
From M.I.A's "Kala" to Radiohead's "In Rainbows" and every musical tidbit in between, XL Recordings has released a cavalcade of music in the last year…
Matinee
On the flipside of the current British pop revival is Jack Peñate. Now, I don't know if I dislike Jack Peñate because he dates/dated Kate…
NME Top 10, found yet again, this time subsumed by the evils of MTV2
Well, NME might have finally jumped the shark by totally ceding control of their Top 10 songs to MTV2 UK, or at least that is…
NME Singles: Finally tracked down
So for the last month or so, I've been trying to find the NME Singles Chart - it had disappeared from its weekly update on…
Is "cute rock" the next big UK import?
Last night I was driving to Palo Alto, as I am apt to do on any given Monday evening, heading to Stanford to mount tiny…
Song of the UK, NME style
So, we've become fond here at TIG of recapping the goings-on on the NME UK pop charts, but really, how meaningful is it when most…