Added on March 31, 2011
Scott Creney
Animal Collective , Arcade Fire , Best Coast , Big Black , Butthole Surfers , Conflict , Daniel Johnston , Electrelane , Forced Exposure , indie rock , Joanna Newsom , Katy Perry , Melody Maker , Minutemen , Mudhoney , Nirvana , Of Montreal , Pavement , Pitchfork , Rolling Stone , Scott Creney , Sonic Youth , Spin , The Books , The Shins , The Suburbs , Tunabunny , TV On The Radio , Vampire Weekend , Vivian Girls
A band like Arcade Fire has a hell of a lot more in common with Katy Perry than it does with Daniel Johnston.
Added on March 28, 2011
Everett True
Dolores O'Riordan , Imagine , John Lennon , Madonna , Melody Maker , Phil Spector , Ramones , Taylor Parkes , The Beatles , The Cranberries , To The Faithful Departed
It’s a weak, flimsy premise for a song: not thought-through, sappy, opportunistic, smug, the opposite of naive … something that this song is often called by its defenders.
Added on March 3, 2011
Everett True
1980 , 2003 , Alison Statton , Alright , BBC Wales , Beat Happening , Cardiff , Colossal Youth , Courtney Love , Devine & Statton , Domino Records , Fall Of Saigon , Hole , Joy Division , Lois Maffeo , Melody Maker , New Order , new song , Nirvana , Olympia , Philip Moxham , Rough Trade Record Shop , Rough Trade Records , St David's Day , Stuart Moxham , Wales , Weekend , Young Marble Giants
After 30 years, a new Young Marble Giants song! And it doesn’t disgrace. It is so sweet, so melancholy, so understated, so Young Marble Giants.
Added on February 25, 2011
Everett True
Hole , Jools Holland , Let England Shake , Lykke Li , Melody Maker , Nick Cave , PJ Harvey , Radiohead , Riot Grrrl , Wounded Rhymes
Sure, I’m as intrigued as anyone. She polarises. Much of me wants to hate her, for the preciousness that surrounds her, the way she receives accolades usually reserved for male artists – why is it never the other way around? – for her treatment of music as art. Someone is putting her in for the […]
Added on January 27, 2011
Everett True
Alan McGee , Animal Collective , Brighton , Bust , Careless Talk Costs Lives , Creation Records , Daniel Johnston , Everett True , Facebook , Grease , London , Melody Maker , Nirvana , Nirvana The True Story , NME , Norman Mailer , Phil Collins , Pitchfork , Plan B Magazine , Reinspired , Saturday Night Fever , Silverfish , Smashing Pumpkins , Something Awful , Sonic Youth , The Deadnotes , The Legend , The Sex Pistols , The Thin Kids , Unconvention Brisbane , Vox
“I didn’t listen to pop music growing up,” he reveals. “If I listened to music, it would be something classical”
Added on January 25, 2011
Everett True
ATTN Magazine , Brisbane , Careless Talk Costs Lives , Chris Weingarten , Courtney Love , Daniel Johnston , Drowned In Sound , Everett True , Half-Japanese , Huggy Bear , Kurt Cobain , Melody Maker , music critics , music papers , Music Writing , NME , Paul Morley , Plan B Magazine , Riot Grrrl , Seattle , Southampton Solent University , The Guardian , The Stranger , Twitter
“Most music critics are reading other music critics to find out what they should like”
Added on October 18, 2010
Everett True
Dada With Juice , Domino Records , Edwyn Collins , Grace Maxwell , Harry Belafonte , Losing Sleep , Melody Maker , Orange Juice , Simply Thrilled Honey , Stephen Pastel , Teenage Fanclub , The Cribs , The Muppets , With A Girl Like You
There’s a new Edwyn Collins album out. You don’t know how happy it makes me, just typing those words.
Added on August 10, 2010
Everett True
Alien Sex Fiend , badminton , Brighton , Chan Marshall , Cranes , David Feck , Dinosaur Jr , Janet Weiss , Jon Slade , Lift To Experience , Martha And The Vandellas , Melody Maker , Mogwai , Quasi , Seattle , Slint , Slipknot , Smog , Sparklehorse , Sylvia Plath , Tangents , The Bangs , The Free Butt , The Gossip , The Lollies , The Strokes , The White Stripes , Twiglets
I’m trying to avoid working here, so here’s another excerpt. Taken from 2001, I believe. FRIDAY AUGUST 17 2001 Clever, friendly and articulate, I notice I have no memory of the events that transpired more than three days hence. The sun beats down upon a town of ingrates and foreign students, each more desperate than […]
Added on August 10, 2010
Everett True
Brighton , Kathryn Williams , Melbourne , Melody Maker , Melting Vinyl , ninetynine , Oasis , Seattle , Supergrass , Tangents
(Excerpted from my 2001 journal, posted at the Tangents archives.) Saturday July 8 … so I’m stuck high up in the rafters at Dublin’s Lansdowne Road international football ground, freezing my fucking fingers off, chatting to Dave Simpson about the stupidity of editors and the rise and rise of PRs in the music business industry […]
Added on July 18, 2010
Everett True
Calvin Johnson , K Records , Kurt Cobain , Melody Maker , Ramones , Shonen Knife , Sub Pop
Oh man. I never realised. I’m not sure how I never realised. Maybe I did realise, but I plumb forgot. After all, when I first travelled out to Olympia in ’89 I’m fairly sure that I purchased every cassette Calvin Johnson had then released on his K label (privilege of being a staff writer, and […]
