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 Everett True

Song of the day – 323: Uffie

ke$ha aped Uffie and now Britney’s aping Ke$ha

 Everett True

subtle use of statistics and juxtaposition to show why Arcade Fire sucks

Take a look at those plays. That’s an entire mountain range of shit music, right there.

 dearmegwhite

Andrew McMillen on interviews (Ed’s note: mandatory reading for any media student)

Treat every interview as if it’s the most important thing in the world, just for that 15 minutes or half hour or hour, even if it’s not. Boring interviews are still boring on paper.

 Everett True

Thought for the day (Billy Childish)

“There’s no such thing as a good song. There’s only a good performance and sound.”

 Princess Stomper

Princess Stomper deconstructs the Art of the Pop Song

The rhythms are hugely complex in how they build up and break down. It’s these wave-like swells and drops that dictate how your body is going to move on the dancefloor. For the brainless dancefloor filler, structure is everything.

 Everett True

Song of the day – 322: MGMT

So I’ve done my increasingly usual trick. Listened to music with barely a trace of context.

 Rah Mcv

Interview with Giordana Caputo – 4zzzfm

They’re not working for a bureaucracy. They’re not working within guidelines. The idea at 4zzz is that you can create whatever you want and I think that’s a really exciting concept

 collapseboard

Grouper – A I A (self-released)

I think I had a dream. It was like looking out into a canyon slowly filling with mist.

 Everett True

Thought for the day (Dave Graney)

‎”I was a kid at school when Queen hit with ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. I couldn’t stand it then. It’s worse now. People who liked it grew up to drive sensible cars with gloves on” – Dave Graney, 1001 Australian Nights

 Everett True

Song of the day – 321: SMZB

Celtic-inspired ramalama punk from the heart of industrial China.