Added on March 24, 2012
Everett True
Everett True , indie , Joy Division , sacred cows
All these bands that copy ’em … why draw the line at the music?
Added on March 23, 2012
Everett True
Everett True , indie , sacred cows , The Fall
It’s hard to criticise a band that have made an art-form out of being inconsistent
Added on March 22, 2012
Everett True
Everett True , indie , Pavement , sacred cows
It’s not easy to draw blood from a glass of warm milk.
Added on November 13, 2011
Brigette
Authenticity , Backlash , Blue Jeans , control , Elizabeth Grant , Hollywood , hype , indie , Interscope , Lana Del Rey , Lizzy Grant , Major Labels , NYC , power and control , self-esteem , sexism , The Hype Machine , Video Games/Blue Jeans 7"
This type of female voice, expressing these worries, these contradictions, simply does not exist anywhere else in popular music right now.
Added on June 20, 2011
Everett True
Art Brut , Beat Happening , Everett True , Hobart , indie , Ivy St , Kate Bush , Music criticism , Naked , Tasmania , The Native Cats , Thee Headcoats , Tunabunny
Presumably, the idea is to make yourself so boring when writing about music that your reader is forced to go and listen to the music in question as relief therapy.
Added on May 25, 2011
Wallace Wylie
C86 , Cars , Gary Numan , indie , Mazes , Moon Duo , Neu! , Nuggets , Sacred Bones , Suicide , The Dukes Of Stratosphear , The Modern Lovers , Wallace Wylie , Wooden Shjips
Music culture doesn’t have any kind of forward momentum anymore so albums like Mazes are allowed to exist without much complaint.
Added on February 25, 2011
Wallace Wylie
advertising , alternative , AT&T , Beat Generation , Bill Hicks , corporate , counter-culture , indie , iron and wine , Lady Gaga , McDonalds , Pitchfork , Ryan Adams , selling-out , The Clash , The Decemberists , The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart , The Shins , Tommy Hilfiger , Vampire Weekend
First off, we need to define alternative culture. Is it something that provides values for those who identify with it, or is it just mainstream culture decked out in thrift store apparel?
Added on February 21, 2011
Wallace Wylie
Bill Withers , Brian Eno , Dan Bejar , David Sanborn , Destroyer , Guided By Voices , indie , Jazz , Kaputt , Leonard Cohen , Merge Records , New Order , New Pornographers , Pavement , Pitchfork , Roxy Music , Tapes 'n' Tapes
Kaputt is a dark city with no easy escape routes. Washed-out horns blow sorrowfully into the night.