How To Be A Female Musician Starting Out
Expect to have more replies to your ‘I’m Forming A Grrl Band’ poster and online ads from men than from women
All 10 Collapse Board Cults album reviews in one easily searchable popularity chart
Listening to Cults, I can only imagine that they have some great insider connections.
15 Most Read Entries on Collapse Board, 22.05.11 – 28.05.11
Music that will make you smile about music once more.
Great Escape mix-tape
I’m going to indulge in a little fantasy inspired by the Great Escape line up and the bands that I managed to catch over the three day festival.
Cults vs Warpaint @ the Great Escape Festival 2011, Brighton, UK, 12.05.11
The music and the dancing is infectious. and the crowd sway and dance as Cults work the room into a blissful frenzy.
In Numbers: Splendour In The Grass 2011
The reason Splendour hasn’t sold out instantaneously, as it normally does, is that the line-up doesn’t justify the price.
10 Most Read Entries on Collapse Board, 17.03.11-26.03.11
My only complaint about The White Stripes was that the band weren’t composed of two Meg Whites
Everett True does not like Kings Of Leon
Someone was accusing me of going soft on Kings Of Leon the other day. Bangs wept! I CANNOT have such aspersions cast on my professional integrity. The following is for him, my faceless accuser. Reprinted from Something Awful, 19/11/10.
Fuck The Dream. Marry for the love and not the money.
I sense a spirit of love that infuses the music with soul and self-expression. And if you think this description suggests a kitsch twee puke-fest, then I’d have sorely done the depth and strength of their music an injustice.
The problem with ‘Girl Bands’
Isn’t it about time that we stop pointing out the fact that the band members of The Like and Warpaint all have vaginas?
