Added on December 14, 2015
Hannah Golightly
Ari Up , Billy Elliot , Blur , Breaking Colts , Hannah Golightly , Hey Colossus , Honeychild Coleman , Ill , interview , Joy Division , Kim Gordon , Locean , Missy Elliot , Patti Smith , Paul Simonon , Pulp , Pussy Riot , Rachmanioff , Rolling Stones , Roxy Music , Tchaikovsky , The Clash , The Cramps , The Doors , The Slits , The Smiths , The Stooges , Warm Widow , Water
Photo by Greta Buitkute. From left to right: Whitney, Hannah, Harri, Fiona. Missed part 1? Backtrack here. Transcribed by Lee Adcock. The original plan was to interview ILL for ten minutes. But where’s the fun in that when there are four like-minded people gathering together to discuss the things that matter to them musically one […]
Added on November 24, 2014
Lee Adcock
2014 , album review , Blur , Lee Adcock , No Jaws , Pavement , Radiohead , Sonic Youth , Strangelove
This is not about No Jaws. This is about a band who pitched their new album by quoting Everett True, the German Rolling Stone (?), and me. You hear that? Me. Yes, me. Do you know how many full albums reviews I’ve written since I came/stumbled upon Collapse Board almost a year ago? 44. (I […]
Added on April 9, 2012
Scott Creney
Adele , Alabama Shakes , Black Crowes , Blur , Boys & Girls , Detroit Cobras , Janis Joplin , Life and How to Live It , Life Magazine , Otis Redding , Sam Cooke , Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings , Stevie Nicks , Stevie Wonder , tina turner , Wilson Philips , Wilson Pickett
Hey, I’m a modern guy. I can dig that art in the 21st Century is all about collage and recontextualization. But as collage artists, Alabama Shakes are essentially just ripping a page out of a 1967 issue of Life magazine and showing to us. Actually, that’s giving them too much credit. Life magazine wrote about the world, Alabama Shakes just writes about Alabama Shakes.
Added on February 16, 2012
Everett True
alcohol , Blur , Boston , Damon Albarn , Everett True , Justine Frischmann , Melody Maker , Stephen Sweet
I was drunker than a barrelful of Graham Coxons
Added on November 18, 2011
Wallace Wylie
blues , Blur , Britpop , Cab Calloway , Chunka-Chunka , Elliott Smith , Jazz , Louis Armstrong , Mamie Smith , Motown , Oasis , The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Kinks , The Move , The Small Faces , The Supremes , Wallace Wylie
It was The Supremes’ ‘Baby Love’ that really brought back that Chunka-Chunka feeling
Added on June 22, 2011
Princess Stomper
4 Non Blondes , Abba , Aerosmith , Andrew Weatherall , Babyshambles , Blur , Bob Ezrin , Bon Jovi , Bonnie Tyler , Butch Vig , Cher , Chris Cornell , Christina Aguilera , Depeche Mode , God Lives Underwater , Gwen Stefani , Hole , Ike & Tina Turner , Inaura , Iron Maiden , Jack Endino , Jay Z , Jim Steinman , Justin Timberlake , Kaiser Chiefs , Katy Perry , Linda Perry , Madonna , McAlmont & Butler , Meat Loaf , Metallica , Motley Crue , Nelly Furtado , Nine Inch Nails , Nirvana , Phil Spector , Pink , Primal Scream , Queen , Skid Row , Stephen Street , Steve Osborne , The Beach Boys , The Cult , The Happy Mondays , The Pussycat Dolls , The Ramones , The Sex Pistols , The Smiths , Timbaland
Band-members are like the ingredients of a cake: get it wrong, and the result is bland or sickly.
Added on March 24, 2011
Wallace Wylie
808 State , A Guy Called Gerald , Acid House , Andy Weatherall , Aphex Twin , Arctic Monkeys , Blur , Bobby Gillespie , Bomb The Bass , Britpop , Cabaret Voltaire , Creation Records , Damon Albarn , Definitely Maybe , Depeche Mode , Derrick May , Fool's Gold , Frankie Knuckles , Gary Numan , Give Out But Don’t Give Up , Happy Mondays , Higher Than the Sun , House , Ian Brown , Jack Your Body , Jimmy Miller , Joy Division , Kula Shaker , Led Zeppelin , Let It Be , Loaded , Love , Massive Attack , Morrissey , New Order , Noel Gallagher , Oasis , Orange Juice , Orbital , Paul Weller , Pet Shop Boys , PiL , Primal Scream , Public Enemy , Sally Cinnamon , Screamadelica , Song Of The Day , Suede , Teenage Fanclub , The Associates , The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Black Crowes , The Boo Radleys , The Byrds , The Human League , The Jam , The KLF , The Libertines , The Orb , The Pastels , The Raincoats , The Rolling Stones , The Sex Pistols , The Slits , The Small Faces , The Smiths , The Soft Boys , The Stone Roses , The Strokes , The Wild Bunch , Uncle Tupelo , Vince Clarke , Visage , Wallace Wylie , We Call It Acieed , WFL , Yazoo
Large elements of the UK alternative press seemed to be waiting for the right guitar band to get behind, the right guitar band to believe in. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Stone Roses.
Added on April 20, 2010
Everett True
Blur , D.H Lawrence , Ray Davies , Song Of The Day , The London Nobody Sings
I don’t hold with reformations. I don’t hold with Britpop or media feeding frenzies either. But this low-key return from Blur – the first new material they’ve recorded since 2003 – is lovely, very Ray Davies, but not chirpy. Where’s that quote from D.H. Lawrence again? I know it’s lying somewhere round here… “The critic’s […]
