How to respond to a Pitchfork review
“However, if [‘Robocop 4 – Fuck Off Robocop’] is truly amongst the worst songs of the year then I am a giant bat and Pitchfork a cave into which I will shit golden effigies of your face.”
Neil Young covers 'God Save The Queen'. Yes, that Neil Young. Yes, that 'God Save The Queen'
Nice drumming. Nice backing vox.
Cheap Time – Wallpaper Music (In The Red)
There’s an elephant in the room, and that elephant needs to have its back shaved.
Kimbra – Vows (Warner Brothers)
Vows is a signal post for pop music. It’s like Kate Bush if she knew how to write a good song. It’s like Cat Power if she had someone who loved her. It’s like Adele if she knew how to dance. It’s like the Rolling Stones if they were still alive. Where can anyone go from here except sideways?
odd comment left on Brian Wilson blog entry
I’m the fellow who gave LSD to Brian Wilson in the early Sixties. I have been vilified for doing this for almost fifty years. I would like to set the record straight about this event
Folk you meet in foreign bus stations
I want moons and stars and girls on bicycles checking themselves out in shop windows as they cycle through New York.
2econd Class Citizen – The Small Minority (Equinox/Fake Four)
It feels like watching the rain through a window. It makes the back of my neck prickle. I think you’ll like it.
Everett True revisits Nevermind (reprint from eMusic)
Pull up a chair, there won’t be a warmer sound for years.
Song of the day – 462: Willis Earl Beal
It’s soul music and it’s sorcery and it’s subtle
5 fundamentally flawed albums you need to own
Sure, you can just use the presets, but that would be bollocks. The real artist puts things together in ways that nobody else would even consider.
