Lee’s Obligatory Best-Of-2015-So-Far List
Yeah, I’d say 2015 has been a good year so far – learned how to code, pissed off a bunch of vapers on Twitter, landed a staff position on Drowned in Sound, helped produce another magazine, and bonded with friends a whole bunch. I get in a funk from time to time – a long […]
Nick Marsh of Flesh For Lulu | Death & Remembrance
By Scott Creney I imagine the day the band finished working on this song they were convinced it was going to be huge. I can imagine them ordering some food, several cases of beer, maybe some champagne, maybe some celebratory white colombian powder to help the night go on forever. After a few years of […]
NME then vs NME now
NME then Marquee Moon review by Nick Kent (NME Feb 1977) Cut the crap, junior, he sez and put the hyperbole on ice. I concur thus. Sometimes it takes but one record – one cocksure magical statement – to cold-cock all the crapola and all-purpose wheatchaff mix ‘n’ match, to set the whole schmear straight […]
20 Quotes from Lester Bangs that I could have said
I never read Lester Bangs much when I was younger. I think I found him too American, or something. Also, I wasn’t in tune with his taste most of the time. His taste stunk, a lot. Hoary old American rock bands wearing their hoary old beards playing their hoary old rock music. I didn’t understand […]
The return of Everett True | 134. Primitive Man
I discovered this one via Neil Kulkarni’s regular dose of savagery over at F.U.N.K. Here’s what he says: ‘Scorn’ from 2012 revealed just what a unique slab of monstrous molten heaviosity this Portland 3-piece can cook up – the split 7/10/12″s that have come since with Xaphan, Hexis, Fister and Hessian have only deepened the […]
“You don’t have to be an activist to want to make a change” | Students on authenticity
I should preface this list by stating that authenticity in popular music is mutable (if it exists), that it is utterly dependent upon genre, time and place (if it exists), that it is defined in relation to its ‘inauthentic’ counterpart (if it exists), that it is a construct with dubious links all the way back […]
RIP Toxic Lipstick
Australian music is a much less colourful place with the news that Toxic Lipstick have decided to call it day. The sad goodbye came last Friday via a post on their Facebook page: So tocky lippy is set 2 fadeaway, just like that awkward memory of some loser tryin to feel u up on formal night. […]
Body-slamming through the tears | Four tracks with the Versace stamp of approval
By Eighties-Print Versace Four tracks with the Versace stamp of approval I think you should hear. b00bjob – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc_MxrYkTDo With a rap landscape that’s truly reached its quota in terms of braggadocio (no disrespect but DAMN, if I’m driven to reflect on my bank account balance or sex moves one more time…) b00bjob’s ‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc_MxrYkTDo’ plays out […]
“The music consumes me” | students tackle Identity in Music
The way in which subcultures achieve authenticity is through what theorist Pierre Bourdieu calls cultural capital. Every object has economic capital, which is its monetary value, and a utility value defined by its purpose. However, more importantly for identity construction is the social associations made with the object. He writes, “Taste classifies, and it classifies […]
The last baby boom rocker | Your thoughts on Tom Petty
Top 5. Shut up if you’re gonna start a diss thread here. I don’t think there’s any point arguing with —- on this. It sounds like he won’t back down! He’s no Keith Chegwin. Dwight Twilley’s bassist? Good bassist. He don’t take shit. Fucken awesome. Petty Petty Petty Petty good Rather great for the most […]
