Ten misconceptions about Collapse Board and Savages. Number one: that we care if they're manufactured.…
It is raining heavily in Utrecht, Netherlands, 1:55 AM, a dark and dreary night filled with feedback and grungy slippery guitar overtones wailing from my imagination into my eardrums. I’ve been listening to Leadbelly, Half Japanese and Nirvana. A few minutes ago I finished your 2005 book on that little band from Olympia or Aberdeen or wherever. A million miles away from me, in any case.…
Just because I'm in that sort of mood, you know.…
Working at Collapse Board isn't all writing about bands no one's heard of, not getting sent albums and being refused places on guest lists. Sometimes we get abused as "boring, self satisfied hipster cunts" too…
This, we're told, is the Season of The Witch. I beg to differ, at least for the reasons given. I like witches.…
Here's what I'll be playing, come the day of her funeral.…
I have tried to include albums generally viewed as 'classic', out of respect to Primal Scream's tradition of reusing Rolling Stones riffs.…
children's concept music, experimental, noise, post-rock, Starbucks…
girl punk; electronic; 60s girl group; teenage schoolgirls; something to do with the beach; grunge; surf pop; surfer punk; late 70s/early 80s DIY post-punk …
This week should also have focused on sexuality, but as ever I became diverted. …
This is the cold moonlight, the guitar picking out gentle beauty amid the red sky’s forked lightning. …