The return of Everett True | 76. The SMB (Steve Miller Band)
I’m a sucker on a 10-foot pole for tumbledown shit like this. Sometimes, all you want for it is to HURT. Amplifiers turned up till they’re overloading, guitars deep and primal and basic and messy, waves of aural goo goo muck slithering and sliming over everything they touch. Drums pounded like they’re the fucking enemy. Which […]
The Challenge #1 – Gretchen Lyme
(By the by. If you haven’t guessed by now, I am a self-styled sidekick. The Tails to yr Sonic. The Watson to yr Holmes. The Bullwinkle to yr Rocky. You get the idea.) So I was sitting with Mike again, behind the counter at Wuxtry, when the other bloke working puts on this shouty ramshackle […]
The return of Everett True | 75. Dalek I Love You
I try not to link back to the past too much in this series – broadly I agree with Ian MacKaye’s sentiments that no ‘classic’ music can hope to be as vital as music happening right now, today. That makes no sense, though, not in reality. How do you define music that’s ‘new’? Is it […]
The return of Everett True | 74. Crayola Lectern
I am way, way late here. (Note to self: mention where they can hear and/or buy album. Mention how fine the album is.) Somehow I manage to avoid writing about Chris every time the opportunity arises (perhaps out of a misguided inner sense of ethics – he is one of my closest friends and musical […]
The return of Everett True | 73. Sleater-Kinney
So how does Everett True feel about the news Sleater-Kinney has reformed, you may be asking yourself. 1. Everett True does not like the idea of bands – especially bands rooted in righteous fire and energy – getting back together, per se. Often, Everett True feels, the motivating factor is lack of inspiration, drive or money. […]
The return of Everett True | 72. Jack Ladder And The Dreamlanders
Of course I never paid attention when this band picked up homeland awards. I hold no truck with awards, see no rhyme nor reason to them. Bunch of self-important blowtards pretending they’re supporting something aside from their own egos. If anything, a band being ‘recognised’ by a bunch of self-serving industry nepotists is going to […]
Andy Stott – Faith In Strangers (Modern Love)
Oh, geez. Look at all these artists I want to write about. Jonnie Common. Hookworms. Clockwork Orchestra. Henry Plotnick. So many words. So many thoughts. So many people you have and haven’t heard before, and need to hear soon. But right now, and only now, this is in my headspace and I can’t shake it. […]
