The sacred cows of indie music – 5: Sonic Youth
Never mind the quality, feel the length.
The sacred cows of indie music – 4: Pixies
You’d think people had never encountered dynamics in rock music before.
Read:Response: (to) Omar Shahid on Lowkey, Logic, Immortal Technique, English Frank, Mic Righteous
Rappers are working class. Critics are middle class. They don’t understand each other.
The sacred cows of indie music – 3: Joy Division
All these bands that copy ’em … why draw the line at the music?
Song of the day – 447: of Montreal
This music, this song, makes me feel giddy with nausea and nauseous with delight.
Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth (Domino reissue)
By Neil Kulkarni
Howard Monk | Things I am embarrassed about – Number one in a series
So you’ll have these obscure bands being lauded, and mortals like us trying to figure out just what it was that XXXX found in their music.
The sacred cows of indie music – 2: The Fall
It’s hard to criticise a band that have made an art-form out of being inconsistent
The sacred cows of indie music – 1: Pavement
It’s not easy to draw blood from a glass of warm milk.
