Song of the day – 547: Francolin
Alternative Australian folk indie pop Scandinavian Swedish twee indie tropical twee Melbourne
The 20 Most Read Articles on Collapse Board in 2012
Fucking nice music too! I can hear Crass, I can hear Bikini Kill, I can hear Dutch insurrectionists The Ex … but most of all I can hear anger and determination and energy and bleakness and hope and a refusal to lie down and accept things as they are.
Three reasons why Nick Cave should ask Everett True’s band to support The Bad Seeds on their forthcoming tour of Australia
Just thinking. Nick Cave is soon to tour Australia with The Bad Seeds, and he really ought to ask The Legend! to be his support. Let’s start a petition!
There is beauty in everything, if you look deep enough. Yoko Ono ‘covers’ Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’
Right now everything is totally right with the world. (Or, as the NME puts it with customary wit, What would happen if Beatle WAG and screaming performance artist Yoko Ono covered Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’?)
Back when I could still write… (a love letter to Jon Slade, pt 5)
nice filofax on my desk. smells of leather and the music industry. how i fucking love the smell of the music industry.
Song of the day – 546: noon:30
Protest music like mainstream commentators keep saying doesn’t exist these days.
Serious Music for Serious People | the continued betrayal of music
Is it any wonder that the pop faction is gathering speed year by year when this is all the consensus can offer by way of an ‘alternative’?
Song of the day – 545: Edward Scissortongue
Moody. Dark. Poetry in troublingly fluid and interrupted motion. One of the singles of 2012, no doubt.
Music features | 2012 in review
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 990,000 times in 2012.
Song of the day – 544: Priests
This is burst-open milk cartons. This is I-can-get-satisfaction. This is abrasion and challenge and the knowledge that the jerk in the back seat of the bus will remain a jerk in the backseat of the bus even when he gets off the bus.
