Yes, I am going to bend that spoon with my mind, so pay attention...…
It’s funny how a woman is slayed for expressing anger. I must be hysteric. PMSING HARDCORE. trying to be punk. How about I’m just sick of crap uninspired chart music, bullies and sexism. I’ve been hurt and I’m angry and playing bass and shouting about it makes me feel better. That’s all it is. And if that freaks people out then good.…
It's like that bit in Almost Famous when Penny Lane tells Patrick to put down the notebook, stop analysing and thinking about it and just let the emotion and energy of the music draw him in. That is China in 2012.…
I can sing 'How Much Is That Doggie In The Window' backwards: I'm sure somebody somewhere thinks that makes me the most awesome person alive.…
"However, if ['Robocop 4 - Fuck Off Robocop'] is truly amongst the worst songs of the year then I am a giant bat and Pitchfork a cave into which I will shit golden effigies of your face."…
I want moons and stars and girls on bicycles checking themselves out in shop windows as they cycle through New York.…
Pull up a chair, there won’t be a warmer sound for years.…
Sure, you can just use the presets, but that would be bollocks. The real artist puts things together in ways that nobody else would even consider. …
Arcade Fire are like a hook-up in the toilets at a nightclub. They do the job, sure, but there's nowhere to go beyond that. …
I hope that in her next life, all Donna Summer ever feels is love. I hope that all of us feel it, including myself.…
All of these songs were ubiquitous. They were in the Top 10 of the US charts. They permeated the culture and colored everyone’s life.…
Secretly, what modern mainstream pop-hackery confirms is that there's a fundamental sadness to the role of music writer, or at least there is if you let it take hold - you are employed to basically be a hanger-on, an eavesdropper, a spod, a geek, someone who won't shut up about something the rest of the world just get on enjoying. …