Added on January 25, 2012
Lucy
best of 2011 , Bjork , I Break Horses , Icona Pop , Lucy Cage , Lykke Li , Robyn , Sacred Harp , Scandipop , The Knife , Those Dancing Days
And it was mostly pop. Girls making pop. Very few of the bands I loved this year consisted of four white boys with guitars, although that template has been responsible for some fairly monumental things over the last four or five decades.
Added on January 23, 2012
Lucy
Grizzly Bear , indie rock , Lucy Cage , Noah and the Whale , The Antlers
If after six plays of a song you are left with absolutely no idea what it sounds like it has surely failed some kind of crucial test.
Added on December 15, 2011
Lucy
Aidan Moffat , best of 2011 , Christmas , Dan Willson , Darren Hayman , Edinburgh , Fairytale of New York , Hefner , John Vanderslice , Malcolm Middleton , Mark Eitzel , sufjan stevens , Vic Chesnutt , Withered Hand
The best Christmas songs will get you joining impromptu choirs and crying into your eggnog.
Added on November 7, 2011
Lucy
Athens GA , Bikini KIll , Huggy Bear , Kristin Hersh , Lucy Cage , Mary Margeret O'Hara , Minima Moralia , Riot Grrrl , Sonic Youth , Swell Maps , Tanya Donelly , The Breeders , The Posies , The Stone Roses , Throwing Muses , Tunabunny
Wrongness is an underrated virtue. Tunabunny revel in wrongness with all the grubby enthusiasm of a puppy rolling in mud and, puppylike, they come up bouncing.
Added on October 28, 2011
Lucy
Alicia Keys , Coldplay , Ellie Goulding , Mark Ronson , Noah & the Whale , Pet Shop Boys , Robyn , Scala & the Kolacny Brothers , Willie Nelson
Really, just open your minds and dance, ya snobby fucks.
Added on October 22, 2011
Lucy
Audio , Brighton , Lucy Cage , Slow Club
Fuck the acoustic guitars and bring on the noise!
Added on September 18, 2011
Lucy
Gotye , Jonathan Swift , Lucy Cage , Making Mirrors , Music criticism , Scott Creney
We’re not running workshops for the mediocre musician here.
Added on September 9, 2011
Lucy
Amanda Fucking Palmer , Amanda Palmer , Bitter Ruin , Dresden Dolls , INXS , Le Tigre , Neil Gaiman , Radiohead
Amanda Fucking Palmer. This isn’t a gig, it’s a communion.
Added on August 5, 2011
Lucy
Aidan Moffat , Braids , Chris Trout , DrownedinSound , Everything Everything , Field Music , Hawkwind , HHBTM , Jon Hopkins , King Creosote , Lady Chann , Luke Haines , Malcolm Middleton , Mechanical Bride , Metronomy , Neil Kulkarni , Nicola Roberts , Orca Team , Patrick Wolf , Pumajaw , Rihanna , Steve Albini , Swimmer One , The Quietus , Wendy Roby , Wild Beasts , Withered Hand , XTC
Yup, my heart is yours, you Scots, ‘unfaithful servants of filthy, fucking language’, as Mr Withered Hand says.
