Yesterday and today: favourite songs of the Interweb (volume two)
The idea behind this series is to find a new way of presenting you with music you may not have heard before. Click on the high grades! These are the music students who’ve gone the extra mile. Click on the low! All taste is equal yet different. And yes, there will be a test afterwards. Grades go […]
The return of Everett True | 104. salyu x salyu
Sometimes, I’m in sync with the rest of the world. I take that back. Little, it seems, is known of the experimental Japanese artist/mainstream Japanese pop vocalist known as salyu x salyu. Certainly here. This, despite her connection with Cornelius. This, despite a YouTube video of a festival appearance with the Bank Band that’s attracted […]
Is it OK to write negative reviews of other people’s music?
So, we opened up the “secret” Collapse Board Contributors Facebook group to a few hundred readers the other day. Cue much confusion and hilarity and the odd piece of incredible music being shared. After the usual butt-clenching and soul-wringing and back-slapping, a few folk posited that they could indeed write some stuff for Collapse Board […]
Why do you like Sleater-Kinney?
Methinks thou dost project too much. Because Janet Weiss is their drummer. She is good. Live she is very good. I don’t think I’ve ever heard them, so right there they’re better than most bands I’ve heard. I’ll never forget the first time I heard this song. Was just listening to The Hot Rock. I […]
The return of Everett True | 103. The Gooch Palms
Australia does trashy so well. That’s it. That’s the end of my Song of the Day for today. Click on the video, and if you like it and want to discover more then why not click on yesterday’s Singles Club post where a roundtable of Collapse Board sorts discuss this very same song. It’s enlightening! It’s […]
The return of Everett True | 102. Taylor Swift
This one has taken me by surprise. I was hoping stuff like this would happen – and it has, several times already – when I began this series a few short days ago. I didn’t expect it to come from this quarter, though. I had to go with this first: so immediate and so compelling. […]
Daniel Johns turns ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ into a Coldplay song
Wow. I don’t know which is worse. The idea of Daniel Johns (the Chris Martin soundalike guy from national embarrassment Silverchair) covering ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ at a triple j party, the actuality of Daniel Johns (the whiny, wallpaper, Chris Martin soundalike guy from national embarrassment Silverchair) covering ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ with harp and […]
Singles Club: Gooch Palms – Trackside Daze (Urinal Cake Records)
Justin Edwards: That Smith Street Band song is getting plenty of column inches but I don’t think anyone’s pointed out that the title is the best thing about it. Instead here’s the new Gooch Palms. https://soundcloud.com/thesmithstreetband/wipe-that-shit-eating-grin-off-your-punchable-face#c=43&t=0:00 Jodi Biddle: Now now. The sleeve art is also gold. Bianca Rosemarie de Valentino: Love the Goochies!!! They’re moving […]
Observations made around the new D’Angelo album
The fact Black Messiah reached Number One in Village Voice’s annual Pazz + Jop poll tells us nothing about the merits of the album itself, plenty about the 700 or so “music critics” who voted in the poll. And it ain’t just Pazz + Jop. That venerable institution MetaCritic rated it 95/100 based on…uh…30 reviews (kinda puts […]
Yesterday and today: favourite songs of the Interweb (volume one)
To celebrate the new enlarged, enlightened Collapse Board contributors Facebook group, I asked all members to nominate their favourite songs of the day – one old, one new. Here are the results. Grades go HD (High Distinction), D (Distinction), C (Credit), P (Pass), F (Fail) OLD: Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out NEW: Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love GRADE: […]
