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Dear Bobby Gillespie | Re: ‘It’s Alright, It’s OK’: it’s actually really not

Dear Bobby Gillespie | Re: ‘It’s Alright, It’s OK’: it’s actually really not

It’s leather trousers worn by men in pubs. It’s an OAP still piling the remainder of his hair into his Teddy Boy quiff, which has over decades thinned to the point where it’s just a flimsy hint, a ghost of a style. …

Another letter to the poor sods at Uncool magazine…

Another letter to the poor sods at Uncool magazine…

“Mumford & Sons’ singular importance in rock’s current moment cannot be underestimated,” is not a sentence I ever imagined I’d read.…

22 Songs I Loved in 2012 by Lucy Cage

22 Songs I Loved in 2012 by Lucy Cage

Sparky, desperate, rough-edged, delirium-fuelled, defiant, shouty boy pop. There’s a place for it, you know.…

Live Review | Boredoms, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Minehead, UK, 11.03.12

Live Review | Boredoms, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Minehead, UK, 11.03.12

Seriously, the best thing I have ever seen.…

Live Review | All Tomorrow Parties curated by Jeff Mangum, Butlins, Minehead, UK, 09-11.03.12

Live Review | All Tomorrow Parties curated by Jeff Mangum, Butlins, Minehead, UK, 09-11.03.12

Sometimes it’s just fine to have good old-fashioned fun at the seaside.…

Beautiful Things of 2011: Scandipop goddesses

Beautiful Things of 2011: Scandipop goddesses

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. …

The Curious Case of The Antlers

The Curious Case of 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.…

The Withered Hand Christmas Special

The Withered Hand Christmas Special

The best Christmas songs will get you joining impromptu choirs and crying into your eggnog.…

The 10 Best Coldplay Covers?!

The 10 Best Coldplay Covers?!

Really, just open your minds and dance, ya snobby fucks.…

Letter to a Disgruntled Gotye Fan

Letter to a Disgruntled Gotye Fan

We’re not running workshops for the mediocre musician here. …

An almost completely random collection of things I’ve loved so far in 2011

An almost completely random collection of things I’ve loved so far in 2011

Yup, my heart is yours, you Scots, ‘unfaithful servants of filthy, fucking language’, as Mr Withered Hand says.…

Kristin Hersh – Paradoxical Undressing

Kristin Hersh – Paradoxical Undressing

She writes of being haunted by songs, battered and tormented and bullied until she can get them down and safe. It’s not craft, it’s alchemy.…

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