Added on August 30, 2011
Everett True
8 Eye Spy , Beijing , Can , China , Electrelane , Everett True , Jim Morrison , Music criticism , Neu! , New Age Steppers , No Mas Bodas , No Wave , Ourself Beside Me , Rough Trade , Tenzenmen , The Fall , The Slits , The Velvet Underground , Vampire Weekend
This is a fine companion piece to 8 Eye Spy. I am beyond good and evil.
Added on August 29, 2011
Everett True
Everett True , hippies , I'm Straight , Jonathan Richman , Music criticism , The Modern Lovers , Vincent Vanoli
I used to despise the hippies, pretending to be so out there:
Added on August 29, 2011
Chris Razor
Battles , Chris Razor , congotronic , Don Caballero , Gloss Drop , ian williams , konono , Music criticism , Route One Or Die , Slint , Storm & Stress , Three Trapped Tigers
Rock – freed from ‘meaning’ – is at last allowed to be its own grinning, eclectic, wayward self.
Added on August 28, 2011
Scott Creney
album review , Chihei Hatakeyama , Mirror , Music criticism , Room 40 , Scott Creney , The Beatles
Dr. Doolittle wanted to talk to the animals, but Chihei Hatakeyama has his ear against the plankton.
Added on August 26, 2011
Everett True
1910 Fruitgum Company , Bewitched , Clark Kent , David Bowie , Everett True , I'll Blow You A Kiss In The Wind , Music criticism , Olympia , Redd Kross , Samantha , Serena , swinging 60s , Vincent Vanoli , Ziggy Stardust
Elizabeth Montgomery was just about the sexiest woman of my 20s
Added on August 24, 2011
Everett True
Butch Vig , Collapse Board , Cream , Dinosaur Jr , Everett True , Husker Du , Killdozer , Kurt Cobain , Metallica , Music criticism , Nevermind , Nevermind 20 Years On , Nirvana , original album review , Seattle , Sub Pop , The Jam , The Slits , Young Marble Giants
It’s taken me nearly two decades to admit to liking Nevermind in public again. In celebration, I’ve decided to reprint my original review.
Added on August 24, 2011
Scott Creney
album review , Bush , Colour Me Badd , Daniel Johnston , El Cajon , grunge , Husker Du , justin bieber , Kurt Cobain , Music criticism , My So-Called Life , Nirvana , Reagan , Reality Bites , Rimbaud , Scott Creney , Shakespeare , Shonen Knife , Stone Temple Pilots , The Improbably-named CeCe Peniston , The Raincoats , Top Gun
Nirvana had a bigger effect on American culture than any rock band since The Beatles. I was there, and anyone who tells you any differently is a goddamned liar.
Added on August 23, 2011
Scott Creney
album review , Bill Hicks , Collapse Board , David Sedaris , Domino , George Michael , Jerry Seinfeld , Joe Walsh , Matador , Mirror Traffic , Music criticism , Pavement , Peter Gabriel , Richard Pryor , Scott Creney , Stephen Malkmus , The Jicks
You need Mirror Traffic the way the ocean needs more salt.