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Highlights & Lowlights of Splendour In The Grass 2011

I enjoyed this year’s Splendour, as I always do.

 Everett True

Imagine if Beat Happening had sold 30 million copies, not Nevermind

By Everett True, age 11

 Everett True

The Horrors – Skying (XL)

The Horrors – Skying (XL)

‘Endless Blue’ is Chapterhouse bad. Let’s not say any more about it.

 Wallace Wylie

Probably the Most Influential Manifesto of the Past 20 Years

Who started the fire? Arcade Fire did.

 Scott Creney

Bon Iver – Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)

Bon Iver is hazier than you expect. It is lost and narcoticized, simultaneously desperate and asleep.

 Everett True

Song of the day – 363: Supercluster (a love song to Athens GA, part one)

This sound is so glorious! It’s like if (early) B-52s and Pylon remained the best-known bands from Athens instead of … goddammit, what was that band’s name again? Coldplay?

 Everett True

Everett True reviews Brisbane, pt 1: Epithets, Ben Salter

THIS WEEK: we’re not off to a good start.

 Everett True

Another One Of Those Days: Everett True’s July 2000 journal

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.

 Everett True

TRUE STORY! 22th February 2011 (translated from the Italian)

“DO YOU REMEMBER THAT BAND THAT MADE YOU DREAM ALL SUMMER LONG, THE BAND WHOSE SONGS YOU KNOW BY HEART ALL THE LYRICS? WELL, IT’S CRAP! AND SO ARE YOU!”

 Everett True

15 Most Read Entries on Collapse Board, 06.05.11 – 12.05.11

“How am I going to feed my family now? How am I going to afford my casual drug habit? Chris Martin must pay!”