Added on July 25, 2011
Bianca Valentino
80s girl pop , Bananarama , Bianca Valetino , Black Flag , Bratmobile , Bush , Cat Power , Catcall , Catherine Kelleher , Christine McVie , Chromatics , Dry July , Everclear , Fleetwood Mac , Fugazi , Glass Candy , Grace Jones , Hole , Homebake Festival , interview , Kim Gordon , Kiosk , M.I.A. , Madonna , Michael Flatley , Molly Neuman , Nathan Howdeshell , Pam Hogg , Patti Smith , Portland , Reef , Roxy Music , Serge Lutens , Sonic Youth , Sydney , The Germs , The Go-Go's , The Gossip
by Bianca Valentino Catcall is the latest musical project from Sydney-based musician Catherine Kelleher. Kelleher first performed as frontwoman for Australian DIY punk band Kiosk in the early 00s. Upon returning home from a 2006 Kiosk US tour Kelleher had a life changing moment (which she talks about here) and after much soul searching decided […]
Added on May 25, 2011
Everett True
amazon , Autoboosh , Brighton , Careless Talk Costs Lives , Cat Power , Chan Marshall , Chicken Run , Coldplay , Dad's Army , Damaged Goods , Dublin , Dusty Springfield , Dusty The Musical , Elliott Smith , Front , Fun Lovin' Criminals , Graft , Grunge: The Everett True Years , Have I Got News For You , Hobomedia , Hunt Emerson , Jamie Sellers , John Robb , Jon Slade , Kathryn Williams , Kevin Shields , King's Reach Tower , Kurt Cobain , London , Mari Wilson , Mark Lamarr , Martin James , Mary Timony , Maslam , Maxim , Melody Maker , Metroland , Minesweeper , ninetynine , NME , Oasis , Passport To Pimlico , Peanuts , Plan B Magazine , Quasi , Reggie Perrin , Ronald Searle , Royal Trux , Seattle , Sleater-Kinney , Sonic Youth , Steven Berkoff , Supergrass , Tangents , The Browning Version , The Go-Betweens , The Guardian , the Millennium Dome , The Onion , The Simpsons , The Spice Girls , The Stranger , The Sun , The X-Files , Theatre Royal , Tony Benn , Uncut , Wichita Records
I want a little glamour around my presence: glamour is the last thing I possess right now. I don’t know if I’ll ever recapture that mood again.
Added on May 12, 2011
Sophie
Cat Power , Elliott Smith , Emmy The Great , Former Ghosts , frightened rabbit , Leonard Cohen , Los Campesinos , Morrissey , Nick Cave , Nick Drake , ow , S , Silver Mt. Zion , Sophie MacKenzie-Smith , The Antlers , Xiu Xiu
Why is that male-fronted bands are more easily notorious for emotionality than any similarly visceral girl-fronted bands?
Added on May 9, 2011
Everett True
Amps For Christ , Cat Power , Electrelane , Ema , Erika M Anderson , Gowns , Leonard Cohen , Mia Clarke , Past Life Martyred Saints , Sean Adams , Times New Viking
Every morning, just to wake myself up and remind myself I’m alive, I like to stare into the abyss.
Added on February 16, 2011
Everett True
Andrew McMillen , Brisbane , Cat Power , Denis Semchenko , Drowned In Sound , Faster Louder , Mess And Noise , Sophie Benjamin , street press , The Bronx , Who The Hell?
I was intrigued to read the following words from QLD journalist Sophie Benjamin on her blog …
Added on August 24, 2009
Everett True
Blondie , Brigette Bardot , Cat Power , Connie Francis , David Bowie , Deerhoof , Duran Duran , Edith Frost , Electrelane , Francoise Hardy , Hanoi Rocks , Ladytron , Mr Airplane Man , Partyline , Serge Gainsbourg , Slumber Party , The Cure , The Monster Women , The Softies , The Vivian Girls , Tiger Trap , Velvet Underground , Xavier Cugat
I love Facebook sometimes. You casually scroll through the comments and links and status updates of the myriad people who claim, mostly somewhat spuriously, to have an affiliation with you and discover this. You know that when a band lists their influences as B-52’s,Young Marble Giants, Shangri-Las, Detroit Cobras, Joan Jett & the Runaways, Exotica!, 60’s […]
Added on August 1, 2009
Everett True
Cat Power , Fiona Apple , Kristin Hersh , Mecca Normal , PJ Harvey , She Keeps Bees , The Gossip , The White Stripes , Toxic Shock
Here’s what Brooklyn two-piece, female-male coupling, She Keeps Bees DON’T sound like. The White Stripes (What, did the number of people in the band fool you? Can’t think of many other groups with just two members?) Cat Power (What, did the sparseness of the music fool you? Did you feel that sparseness automatically confers a ‘confessional’ […]
