interview with a QUT journalism student
1. Do you believe the internet is making it easier for emerging writers to get published or harder? You need to set your parameters first. If you’re referring to being published in a professional sense, then one would imagine it’s making it easier: there are more platforms, the means of production is more egalitarian and […]
a couple of great links
I received the following in my inbox the other day. Well worth checking out. I have several of Kevin’s mix tapes and homemade magazines/PDF files, and they’re great, really great. Killer blog, too. Tragoudia is the latest edition of Your Heart Out, and it can be downloaded here. It’s subtitled Adventures in Greek Music, though things […]
reprinted from The Music Network
The interview was conducted by Jason Treuen. This is the full transcript of the edited article that appears here. When did the idea for Collapseboard first come about? Brisbane photographer Justin Edwards suggested the idea of a collaboration between his pictures and my words over a year back: he’d been a reader of my two […]
Song of the day – 176: Sheezer
Linked through from a dear friend on Facebook. This is Sheezer covering a song by Rivers Cuomo, with an awful lot of enthusiasm. Sheezer are an all-female Weezer covers band from Toronto but… well, you know what I’m going to say already. I prefer them to the original. It’s in keeping with the new Song […]
Song of the day – 175: Kim Ki O
You want to listen to some deliciously hazy synth-swamped dark wave made a pair of Riot Grrrls from Istanbul? Of course you do. This is a song from their new album Dans, released by Enfant Terrible. As they explain, “The name of the album here indicates ‘dancing’ as a social way of existence, which connects […]
Song of the day – 174: The Nuns
Damn. I miss England sometimes. An all-female Monks tribute band no less! And it features my friends Debbie and Delia – two of the hardest rockin’ women in the whole of the UK!
Song of the day – 173: Betty And The Werewolves
Initially, I’d dismissed their album Teatime Favourites as flimflam – thin, weedy-sounding, doing for female C86 what countless generations of boys have done for their male counterparts, like Talulah Gosh with all the punk removed – and I still can’t entirely get past quite how much the singer sounds like Amelia, or the drums clatter […]
Song of the day – 172: Chin Chin
Some fucking killer girl-punk from the Eighties, from Switzerland: friends and contemporaries and musical peers and label-mates of Shop Assistants: abrasive, melodic, sometimes filled with sadness, other times just a raucous blast of pure entertainment!
