The return of Everett True | 132. Kendrick Lamar
I don’t normally like rap but this new Kendrick Lamar album is the greatest hip hop album I’ve heard since The Marshall Mathers LP. Of course it’s the only hip hop album I’ve heard since The Marshall Mathers LP. It’s a question of whether we should privatize the normal water supply for the population. And […]
The return of Everett True | 86. Azealia Banks
Look at all the comments underneath this video. Most every single one is pitting her against another female rapper – usually Nicki Minaj or Iggy Azalea. Or perhaps Brooke Candy. Lady Gaga, even. Like there really isn’t room for more than one female in rap or hip-hop or pop music, whatever you want to call it. […]
What I did tonight instead of going to see Temples play live
Everett True details what he did tonight instead of watching dishwasher-safe 60s-style “psychedelic” revivalist pop band Temples. Surly UK music critic Neil Kulkarni writes, “A conservatism blankets indie, has really sunk in subcutaneously since the rise of the Stone Oasis Screams, the first bands to lucratively make ‘indie’ music a home for purely white music fans, denim blinkers […]
Letters from Rosie 10 | I am perhaps the last Madonna fan on earth. That’s as may be.
The top two percent of indie music history is remembered and the median is just disregarded.
Song of the day – 562: Nicki Minaj
More hardcore than Throbbing Gristle, more extreme than most ‘extreme’ punk hardcore and metal hardcore I’ve heard
Everett True’s 20 Favourite Songs of 2012 (the edited version)
It seems like folk just don’t have the time these days for the full unexpurgated version.
Everett True’s 64 Favourite Songs of 2012
Last year was sensational for music. This year was even more sensational.
22 of Princess Stomper’s favourite songs of 2012 so far
This song is more infectious than Jeff Goldblum’s laptop in Independence Day
22 of Everett True’s favourite songs of 2012 so far
A little early, perhaps … but there’s always so much great music around the difficulty is documenting it all, giving it a fair shake. DISCLAIMER 1 This is a random list – influenced by the heat today, and the lecture I just gave in Creative Writing, and the fact my PhD thesis continues to loom, […]
Song of the day – 426: Azealia Banks
Be fearless and be worthy of everyone’s adoration.
