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 Tiarney Miekus

Paths Diverge: Alpine, Kitchen’s Floor, Ouch My Face And Blank Realm

Paths Diverge: Alpine, Kitchen’s Floor, Ouch My Face And Blank Realm

By Miss Tiarney Miekus Setting up Kitchen Floor’s Battle of Brisbane with Alpine’s Yuck would make for a lousy blind date. One is a party and one is a funeral, and I’m not convinced which is which. Yes, both are Australian releases (Alpine a few months ago, KF more recent), but they have little in […]

 Wallace Wylie

Bringing Up The Rear – Wallace’s Last Minute Best Of 2013

Bringing Up The Rear – Wallace’s Last Minute Best Of 2013

The worst thing about end of year polls is that they all come out in early December, which is hilarious because that means nobody got to talk about one of the best albums of the year. The Beyoncé album, called Beyoncé, was released with no fanfare, no reviews, and no warning. It then became one […]

 Everett True

Christopher J. Ott | The other Guv’ner

Christopher J. Ott | The other Guv’ner

You want to get paid for music writing? You’re pretty soon going to find out that you are in a world that has nothing to do with music or writing. It’s about executing PR campaigns.

 Everett True

Simon Reynolds | The guv’ner

Simon Reynolds | The guv’ner

What I find disconcerting is how many young writers are very reasonable and sane in their approach

 Everett True

Song of the day – 621: Pony Time

Song of the day – 621: Pony Time

This video disturbs me. There’s something quite WRONG about it.

 Wallace Wylie

Ignorant Fantasies | Race and Class Delusions From David Thomas

The fantasy world that David Thomas inhabits reeks of privilege and conceit. Perhaps I expected a bit more intelligence, a bit more individuality, a bit more adventurousness to his thinking. Then again, he is a white middle-class American male. We can’t expect too much.

 Everett True

PhD research: Simon Reynolds on how taste is formed in web 2.0 environments

Web culture is driven by the impulse to differentiate oneself, so there is a lot less cultural capital to be generated from agreeing than there is from disagreeing.

 Everett True

Song of the day – 429: Guided By Voices

Funny how the remnants of those who fought in the indie trenches during the 90s hold up GbV as a classic band, above many.

 Everett True

Song of the day – 406: The Bastards Of Fate

Spelling is not at a premium. Bowels will be tickled.

 Brigette

Collapse Board Manifesto: In Poetry Form

Adam Ant says that there is always room at the top.