Added on January 29, 2012
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2012 , Anna Calvi , Austra , Brisbane , Glasser , Jody Macgregor , Laneway , Laneway Festival , M83 , Pajama Club , Rave , Sunday Mail , The Feist , The Horrors , The Vine
I hate music festivals because I love music, and I mean properly love music. Real love is unhealthy, obsessive, consuming. I am outside Music’s house in defiance of a restraining order. I am frightening off Music’s new boyfriend. I am holding Music’s pets to ransom until Music agrees to return my calls.
Added on January 26, 2012
Scott Creney
Arthur Lee , Cat Power , Chuck Klosterman , De La Soul , Grantland , LCD Soundsystem , Liz Phair , Merrill Garbus Garbus , Pazz & Jop , sexism etc , Spin , tUnE-yArDs , Van Morrison , Village Voice
I’m not a huge fan of Tuneyards, but I think this article is a massive pile of shit. No maybes about it.
Added on January 25, 2012
Everett True
Fuckarias , Lucy Cage , Scandipop , Sweden , Those Dancing Days
There’s melody and pace, and the sort of vicarious thrill that used to be had from boy rock all those years back
Added on January 25, 2012
Lucy
best of 2011 , Bjork , I Break Horses , Icona Pop , Lucy Cage , Lykke Li , Robyn , Sacred Harp , Scandipop , The Knife , Those Dancing Days
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.
Added on January 16, 2012
Princess Stomper
Danielle Dax , Depeche Mode , Europe , Front 242 , Girls Aloud , Lady Gaga , Lindsay Lohan , Nine Inch Nails , PANDORA , Princess Stomper , Sophie Ellis-Bextor , Sugababes , Wallace Wylie
Rock music is ‘better’ than pop music? There’s no fucking difference!
Added on January 15, 2012
Bianca Valentino
Bianca Valentino Interview , Bikini KIll , feminism , Kate Nash , Rock 'n' Roll For Girls After School Club , Ryan Jarman , sexism etc , sexism in the music industry , The Receeders , zines
“The music that I listen to, I feel like it’s really something that saves me. It’s escapism. It’s comfort.”
Added on January 9, 2012
Everett True
Coldplay , Guided By Voices , Kitchen\'s Floor , Royal Headache , Sydney , The Alpaca Brothers , The Deadnotes , The Legend , The Strokes
You think pop music is JUST about the music? Fuck, I thought even 2-yr-olds knew that wasn’t the case.
Added on December 30, 2011
Everett True
Andrew Dubber , Everett True , Music criticism , music journalism , Pitchfork , The Guardian , the new boring , The New York Times
Never before has there been a greater opportunity for music journalists to be tastemakers and discoverers of exciting talent. Never before has that opportunity been so resolutely rejected.
Added on December 17, 2011
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best of 2011 , Conan Neutron , Helms Alee , Hurry Up Shotgun , Lou Reed , Marnie Stern , Metallica , Obits , Poison Control Center , Police Teeth , The Blind Shake , The Mountain Goats , Tom Waits , Virgin Islands , Wild Flag
Music is far too important to be relegated to the background.
