Three million twats can be wrong | Lily Allen’s ‘Air Balloon’
Listening to ‘Air Balloon’ sans distractions, as pure music, as pure human transmission, as I have been for an hour now, it seems to summate everything that’s broken with my relationship to British pop music.
MY POMPOMS ARE TOO DROOPY: some thoughts on Alex Turner, the music press, and moving on.
Alex Turner’s Brits acceptance speech was everything that rock’n’roll is meant to be: unpredictable, dumb, funny, exciting and attention-grabbing. But it was so much more than that. It was a call to arms.
The Friday Afternoon Playlist, 24.01.2014
Bo Ningen – Henkan Last weekend I went down to the Gold Coast for this year’s Big Day Out festival and saw some of the worst bands in the history of music. However, thanks to a recommendation from Collapse Board contributor Brendan Eales, I also caught Japan-via-London psych-rock four piece Bo Ningen, who, despite playing […]
One of the angriest reviews I ever wrote | U2, live in Philadelphia, 1992
I stand in the middle of a baseball stadium somewhere in America and feel totally lost, totally depressed, totally overwhelmed
Conan Neutron’s best of 2013 | Hey, look: I like the rock music!
It’s just damn good rock’n’roll. Is that the kind of thing you are into? Well, are you?
TGA magazine, the UK’s only print publication dedicated to women in music, launches its first issue
Historically, music magazines have been skewed from and for a male perspective. But that’s not reflective of their potential audience.
Song of the day – 671: King Champion Sounds
I use the word blast. I refer to the bursts of clarion-call brass that punctuate this uplifting, insurgent noise. I refer to the chiding, aware vocals.
Live Through This | the press clippings
Everett True is famous for two things. He’s the last of the big personality journalists…
Collapse Board | the missing two years of messages
This really is like sorting through other people’s garbage bins.
