over at the village voice, tony green reviews albums by young neo-soul rebels glenn lewis and remy shand and, in the process, writes an abstract of the article on neo-soul that i've been meaning to write myself. (essentially: most nu-soul boys admire stevie's rhodes and not his clavinet; ron isley's voice and not ernie's guitar.)

meanwhile, douglas wolk, in an article on dance-rock, sheds some light on the mysterious lcd soundsystem, the brainchild of producer james murphy, one half of the dfa team also responsible for remixing the rapture's "house of jealous lovers".