I'm not a huge fan of Tuneyards, but I think this article is a massive pile of shit. No maybes about it.…
And it was mostly pop. Girls making pop. Very few of the bands I loved this year consisted of four white boys with guitars, although that template has been responsible for some fairly monumental things over the last four or five decades. …
If after six plays of a song you are left with absolutely no idea what it sounds like it has surely failed some kind of crucial test.…
As noted in last Thursday's post, veteran music rag Spin has pronounced the traditional album review dead.…
Turns out some cold-hearted bastard had gotten Brian in a box and then nailed it shut. It took me almost an hour to get him out.…
Rock music is 'better' than pop music? There's no fucking difference!…
The update sparked two replies and got 9 'likes', the second highest amount McMillan has ever gotten for a status update.…
Pop outflanked all of its critics by making them extreme traditionalists or anti-populist cranks.…
As if my mind needed bending lately.…
Up until that point I'd lived in blissful ignorance of a true Brisbane underground. The music coming out of Port Chalmers had been the centre of my universe. It was a pivotal moment.…
At the risk of sounding overly hyperbolic, I think the best – or, at the very least, most interesting – records stand outside time. …
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Unaddressed allegations of racism, misogyny, violent abuse and bad behaviour. There’s a problem with…
You break up with your ex. You like them, but they’ve pushed the limits…
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It’ll probably never stop being weird that of all the places in the world…
Photo: Bertrand Fevre Hugh Cornwell is an English musician and singer-songwriter best known as…
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Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter play a headline show at Fortitude Music Hall in…
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Once I was blind, now I can see Once I was blind but now…
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The opening song sounds like My Bloody Valentine. You may well be enthused by…
Lambrini Girls’ debut album, Who Let the Dogs Out is out now on City…
Good news: Hinds are back!!! Bad news: They’ve lost a couple of the band…
Remember Cults? Back in Collapse Board’s glory days of 2011, we ran 10 reviews…
