Added on December 16, 2011
Wallace Wylie
alex ross , Austra , Barbara Panther , best of 2011 , Bjork , Dave Tompkins , Destroyer , Emika , james blake , Lana Del Rey , Lykke Li , Phil Ochs , Radiohead , Richard Youngs , The Drums , The Fall , The Mountain Goats , Tunabunny , Wallace Wylie , Yelle
Don’t pull your pants. Buy this album instead.
Added on December 12, 2011
Tom Randall
A Very She and Him Christmas , Lana Del Ray , Merge , She And Him , Tom Randall
Christmas culture is the ultimate test. Matthew and Zooey have hitched their wagon to that star, and many will judge them for it.
Added on December 11, 2011
Everett True
Barbara Panther , best of 2011 , Colombina Parra , Crystal Stilts , Dick Diver , Dum Dum Girls , Everett True , Hive Dwellers , Karaocake , Kate Bush , Katie Stelmanis , Kimya Dawson , Maria and the Gay , Micachu and the Shapes , No Mas Bodas , PJ Harvey , Shellshag , Skinny Girl Diet , Sugar & Tiger , The Bastards of Fate , Tom Waits , Tunabunny
Not a note wasted, not a note pointlessly repeated.
Added on December 10, 2011
Tamsin
Art Museums , best of 2011 , Bleeding Knees Club , Burning Hearts , Deathcrush , Desire , Divorce , Gropetown , John Maus , Lana Del Rey , Muscles Of Joy , Rasheeda
This year, I’ve flitted from offering to offering like a bluebottle in a blocked toilet.
Added on December 1, 2011
Everett True
George Harrison , He's So Fine , My Sweet Lord , sexism etc , The Chiffons , The Guardian
I’m sure The Chiffons believed in the beauty of what they were singing as much as George did.
Added on November 20, 2011
Everett True
Charlotte Gainsbourg , Kate Bush , Kimya Dawson , Lana Del Rey , Maria and the Gay , parlour game , The Bastards of Fate , Washed Out
Can’t quite appreciate her music like I used to after she threatened to beat me with a baseball bat for making fun of the Olympia Co-Op
Added on November 14, 2011
Scott Creney
Authenticity , Bruce Springsteen , Courtney Love , Dave Clark Five , Elvis Costello , Fugazi , Hole , Joy Division , Kristin Stewart , Lana Del Rey , Madonna , Minor Threat , Nirvana , Scott Creney , sexism , The Byrds , the eagles , The Monkees
ALL music is fake. That’s why they call it a performance; that’s why they call it an act.
Added on November 14, 2011
Everett True
Abba , Authenticity , Best Coast , Brigette Adair Herron , Dolly Parton , girl group , Lana Del Rey , Lizzy Grant , sexism , Slint , St Vincent , The Go-Go's , The Sex Pistols
Authenticity, pah! It’s as bad as real music! No such thing.
Added on November 13, 2011
Brigette
Authenticity , Backlash , Blue Jeans , control , Elizabeth Grant , Hollywood , hype , indie , Interscope , Lana Del Rey , Lizzy Grant , Major Labels , NYC , power and control , self-esteem , sexism , The Hype Machine , Video Games/Blue Jeans 7"
This type of female voice, expressing these worries, these contradictions, simply does not exist anywhere else in popular music right now.
Added on November 8, 2011
Everett True
Billy Idol , feminism , Greatest Hits Volume 1 , Guided By Voices , Kim Wilde , Maria and the Gay
This time let’s not call it anything. People will hate it but at least it will have spirit.
