Added on December 6, 2012
Mike Turner
Alabama Shakes , Animal Collective , Ariel Pink , Bats For Lashes , Beach Fossils , Beach House , best of 2012 , Captured Tracks , Clinic , Cold Pumas , Deerhoof , DIIV , Dirty Projectors , Dum Dum Girls , Grimes , Grizzly Bear , Jack White , Japandroids , La La Vasquez , Laetitia Sadier , mac demarco , Micachu and the Shapes , Mike Turner , Minutemen , Mumford & Sons , Naomi Punk , New Order , Of Montreal , Passion Pit , Pixies , Shins , Tame Impala , Tears For Fears , The Bastards of Fate , The School , Twin Shadow , Wild Nothing , Windowspeak , Yo La Tengo
Dum Dum Girls had a massive year — the Coke Zero of the indie world. You know, same taste as the original formula but not as filling.
Added on November 19, 2012
Lucy
Bjork , Coachella , Dorian Lynskey , Lucy Cage , Mumford & Sons , Music criticism , music festivals , Noah & the Whale , Noah and the Whale , PJ Harvey , Public Enemy , Simon Price , UNCOOL
“Mumford & Sons’ singular importance in rock’s current moment cannot be underestimated,” is not a sentence I ever imagined I’d read.
Added on March 16, 2012
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Barack Obama , Billy A Reeves , David Cameron , GDH Cole , Goldman Sachs , Grace Petrie , Mumford & Sons , Noah and the Whale , Steve White And The Protest Family , the White House , Thee Faction
Mumford & Sons playing the White House is the embodiment of the cultural logic of this Tory-led administration, and of British capitalism in general. Musicians are no longer the minstrels the ruling class hire for the occasion. These days they recruit their own. It’s safer that way.
Added on January 21, 2012
Everett True
Everett True , Fleet Foxes , Foo Fighters , Gotye , Kings Of Leon , Mumford & Sons , NME , one-word reviews , Princess Stomper , Zwan
Witness, and pay tribute at the throne of the One, the Only, the True Word.
Added on September 1, 2011
Wallace Wylie
Alladdin , anti-semitism , Dumbo , Gang Of Four , Louis Prima , Mumford & Sons , Phil Harris , racism , Robin Hood , Robin Williams , Roger Miiler , Roger Miller , Rudyard Kipling , Scatman Crothers , Sleeping Beauty , Snow White , Sun Ra , The Aristocats , The Jungle Book , Top Disney Songs , Wallace Wylie , Walt Disney
They really don’t write ‘em like this anymore.
Added on April 1, 2011
Cheri
Cheri Amour , Mumford & Sons , NME , Pete Waterman , Post Break Up Sex , The Vaccines
It’s like writing a hit on toilet behaviour; it happens but we don’t have to make a song or dance about it.
Added on November 8, 2010
Everett True
AMP , Angus and Julia Stone , ARIAs , Australian Music Prize , Carmen Electra , Dom Alessio , Megan Washington , Men At Work , Mess And Noise , Mountain Man , Mumford & Sons , Powderfinger , Sia , Temper Trap , The Wiggles , Triple J , Washington
Congratulations to Temper Trap, winners of Most Popular Australian Single. A single so popular that it’s won the award two whole years after it was released
Added on September 22, 2010
cameron
Ambitious Lovers , Before Hollywood , Big Strong Brute , McKisko , Mumford & Sons , Neutral Milk Hotel , Okkervil River , Review , the middle east , Tragic/Athletic , Turnpike
Paul Donoughue (aka the man behind indie-folk ‘band’ BigStrongBrute) is a son of a bitch. He makes things look so easy. First off, he was part of the great band Tragic/Athletic, a band that started out as a snot-nosed noise-punk band seemingly highly indebted to Turnpike (no bad thing) before maturing into something much more […]