Wayward Lee Reports To Base: A Blog, A “Band”, The Foxygen Massacre, A Crippling Crush, And Some Nice Chats (11/16 – 3/17)
Howdy, guys. If you’ve been paying attention to Collapse Board at all, you’ll note that I haven’t been here lately. I wish I could say that I’ve been trotting the globe in the five-month interim, questing for loot and slaying fiends. Alas, no, I’ve only been writing for three other outlets – one of those […]
Considering Pitchfork’s 200 Best 80’s Songs
By Scott Creney Ask anyone who’s ever worked for a literary magazine, democracy is a shitty way to evaluate art. The polarizing stuff rarely makes it through. Instead you end up with a bunch of B-plus material—competent, workmanlike. Or in the case of this week’s Pitchfork Top 200 Singles of the 80’s, you end up […]
The Only Apple Music Article You Need To Read
By Scott Creney So when you first join up there’s all these goddamned floating circles and you’re supposed to pick your favorite genre of music from a bunch of categories that are so broad & vague as to be meaningless: alternative, electronic, pop, rock, oldies, etc. But you can’t see all the bubbles at once […]
So boring I forgot what I was going to type | the collected Facebook War On Drugs vitriol
This one started quite innocuously. A simple and well-liked comment on Facebook, Fuck man. Has anyone actually listened to The War On Drugs? Christ, they’re bad. I hear Mark Kozelek is a big fan. I think Kozelek is probably jealous cos they’re the only band alive more boring than him. Saw ’em at the Zoo, […]
The final lecture| the Appeal of the WRONG! in pop music
Great lecture. The vast majority of my students missed it. Just sayin’. The descriptions are taken from my regular weekly column at The Vine. Die Antwoord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bdeizHM9OU According to Pitchfork, Zef is a “philosophy of intentional ignorance and crassness”. Die Antwoord, a rave-rap outfit from South Africa, try so hard to be WRONG in everything they do, […]
The Friday Afternoon Playlist, 31.01.2014
If everything has gone to plan, I’ll be at the Brisbane leg of this year’s Laneway festival by the time you read this. This year’s line-up is another strong one and I’ll be looking to catch a number of acts we’ve written about on Collapse Board, both favourably and less so – Lorde, Savages, Warpaint, […]
The Definitive List | The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, Part 3
If it’s classic and someone voted for it in the 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, then it’s IN!
Titus Andronicus – Local Business (XL)
If anyone in The Hold Steady was less than 45 years old, they might sound like this.
Song of the day – 501: Nude Beach
They sometimes sound like the only record they grew up mainlining was that mythological good Bruce Springsteen one
