Added on December 14, 2021
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2021 , Lee Ranaldo , Song of the day , Sonic Youth , SotD
At the very start, working from home seemed like it was going to be the dream. The Dream. Commuting time saved and converted into something more meaningful. The low productivity experiences of open plan office working changing to working set hours and finishing on time every day. Time to redesign this site, do more […]
Added on February 22, 2016
Lee Adcock
album review , Lee Adcock , Sonic Youth , The Cure , Wire , Witching Waves
You feel misplaced too, don’t you? Some place was promised for us, for the talents that our teachers adored. This wasn’t supposed to happen. We shouldn’t be the ones stranded in apartments, stuck in the towns we hate, doing the work that no one with dignity would do. Well, then. You can just lie there […]
Added on December 11, 2015
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2015 , Brisbane , Debbie Googe , In Photos , James Sedwards , Sonic Youth , Steve Shelley , The Best Day , Thurston Moore , Woolly Mammoth
Thurston Moore brings his band, featuring ex-Sonic Youth colleague Steve Shelley, My Bloody Valentine bassist Debbie Googe and guitarist James Sedwards, to Brisbane’s Woolly Mammoth to play a Meredith Festival sideshow.
Added on November 24, 2014
Lee Adcock
2014 , album review , Blur , Lee Adcock , No Jaws , Pavement , Radiohead , Sonic Youth , Strangelove
This is not about No Jaws. This is about a band who pitched their new album by quoting Everett True, the German Rolling Stone (?), and me. You hear that? Me. Yes, me. Do you know how many full albums reviews I’ve written since I came/stumbled upon Collapse Board almost a year ago? 44. (I […]
Added on November 10, 2014
Lee Adcock
Cabaret Voltaire , joanna gruesome , Lee Adcock , My Bloody Valentine , Perfect Pussy , Sonic Youth , Swirlies
Stop. Breathe in for four counts, hold for two, out for six. Repeat until you’re calm enough to lay the ad hoc dagger on the table. OK. Focus. Let’s talk about Joanna Gruesome and Perfect Pussy. a) Trust Fund outclassed Joanna Gruesome on their previous split. The latter stuck to their discordant guns and handed […]
Added on November 2, 2013
Everett True
Acetone , Eric B & Rakim , Len , Olivia Newton-John , Paul McCartney , pop music , sex , Sonic Youth , Tall Dwarfs , The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time , The Go-Betweens , The Sharades , The Tours , user-generated content
When will Collapse Board tackle the Top 100 Lisps List of All Time? I already vote in Morrissey and Daniel Johnston, so only 98 more to go.
Added on September 14, 2013
Scott Creney
Body/Head , Fifth Dimension , John Coltrane , Kim Gordon , Lemonheads , Matador , Scott Creney , Sonic Youth , The Beatles , Yoko Ono
It articulates the feeling of inescapable grief, in what it says and what it keeps silent, as well as any album I’ve ever heard in my long yearning life.
Added on September 11, 2013
Wallace Wylie
2012 , Aerosmith , Aretha Franklin , Austra , Bad Brains , Billy Joel , Boards of Canada , Bob Seger , Burial , Celine Dion , Chromatics , Destroyer , Dire Straits , Dirty Projectors , disco , Elliott Smith , Eric Clapton , Feature , Flying Lotus , Foreigner , Frank Ocean , Funkadelic , Garth Brooks , james blake , John Grant , Jon Hopkins , Journey , Julia Holter , Justin Timberlake , Kanye West , King Krule , KISS , Kraftwerk , Laurel Halo , Madonna , Matthew Dear , Metallica , Michael Jackson , Motley Crue , Mount Kimbie , Nico , Nirvana , Prince , Public Enemy , Richard Youngs , Sonic Youth , The Beatles , the eagles , The Raincoats , The Scorpions , The Slits , The Small Faces , The Velvet Underground , The Weeknd , THEESatisfaction , Throwing Muses , Thundercat , Twin Shadow , Van Halen , Wallace Wylie , X-Ray Spex
The real problem that the industry is dealing with these days is the lack of cultural importance given to popular music and the fact that popular music no longer has the same unifying power as it used to.
Added on May 28, 2013
Everett True
Everett True , Glenn Branca , Joey Ramone , New York City , Song of the day , Sonic Youth , The Cannanes , The Legend , The Stress Of Leisure , theoretical girls , Wharton Tiers , Wharton Tiers Ensemble
That’s SIR Wharton Tiers to you punkette, man who’s drummed with the Bangs almighty No Wave band Theoretical Girls (ft. Glenn Branca) and Laurie Anderson.
Added on May 1, 2013
Scott Creney
Brooklyn , Florida , Minutemen , Pere Ubu , Permanent Makeup , Scott Creney , Sonic Youth , Tampa
It starts out in the world of Sonic Youth — a tinny, anemic charming version of SY — before shooting off in the direction of Sun City Girls, Minutemen rants with Pere Ubu paranoia