Added on February 11, 2011
Everett True
Blondie , Courtney Love , Daisy Lowe , Hole , Kings Of Leon , Kurt Cobain , Manic Street Preachers , Marilyn Monroe , NME , Pris , Shampoo , Vice
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely stupid.
Added on January 31, 2011
Emily
Brian Eno , Courtney Love , drugs , Gang Of Four , Joy Division , New Order , NME , Peter Saville , PiL , Pitchfork , post-punk , R. Kelly , The Slits , U2 , Vibe , Wire
1. “(INSERT FEMALE ROCK/POP MUSICIAN’S NAME HERE), THE BAD GIRL OF ROCK…” Description: Virtually every female musician who dyes her hair ‘punk’ colors and/or makes vaguely ‘rebellious’ (or quasi-feminist) pronouncements is saddled with this phrase in music reviews or featured interviews. This travesty of words has been going on since The Slits, and most notoriously […]
Added on January 31, 2011
Everett True
Almost Famous , Brighton , California , Chuck Berry , Courtney Love , Emma Anderson , Facebook , Greil Marcus , Jonathan Franzen , knitting , Lesley Rankine , Lester Bangs , Lush , Meatmen , Miranda Sawyer , music press , Music Writing , Oprah Winfrey , Pauline Kael , Pitchfork , punk rock , sexism etc , Smash Hits , The Edge , The Stone Roses , The Wire
Imagine if the music critic in Almost Famous had been female. Any chance at all she wouldn’t have been portrayed as a groupie?
Added on January 25, 2011
Everett True
ATTN Magazine , Brisbane , Careless Talk Costs Lives , Chris Weingarten , Courtney Love , Daniel Johnston , Drowned In Sound , Everett True , Half-Japanese , Huggy Bear , Kurt Cobain , Melody Maker , music critics , music papers , Music Writing , NME , Paul Morley , Plan B Magazine , Riot Grrrl , Seattle , Southampton Solent University , The Guardian , The Stranger , Twitter
“Most music critics are reading other music critics to find out what they should like”
Added on July 30, 2010
Everett True
Beat Happening , Courtney Love , Daniel Johnston , David Nichols , Julian Teakle , Melbourne , Mick Turner , Rough Trade , The Cannanes , The Dirty Three , Venom P Stinger
OK. Day two of my tribute to becoming Australian, and this group have significance for me. I’m sure my pal David Nichols can remind me of this, but when he found himself at a loose end for those crucial 12 hours in London on a stopover back from Olympia, WA to Melbourne in 1985, and […]
Added on April 26, 2010
Everett True
Billy Corgan , Courtney Love , God , Guns N\' Roses , Hole , Joan Jett , Linda Perry , Marianne Faithfull , Micko , Nobody\'s Daughter , Oasis
Hey. Glad you could make it. Thought we might want to establish a few rules before I get down to the actual reviewing. This is a trial run for the format. So – duh – it might not work, as a format. The idea is that this live-to-air review takes it cue from the live […]
Added on March 23, 2010
Everett True
Christina Hoff Sommers , Courtney Love , feminism , J Mascis , Lady Gaga , Letters from Rosie , Love And Rockets , The Rolling Stones , Why Girls Can\'t Rock
Received another excellent, thought-provoking email from Rosie, partway inspired by my recent Tall Tales And True post. Hey ET, Just read Tall Tales. Want more. I’m going to tell you what I’m thinking and I’ve been thinking it for a while. Yr blog posts, although plentiful in number, are too short for my tastes. I […]
Added on February 10, 2010
Everett True
Barbara Ehrenreich , Beth Ditto , Courtney Love , Diamanda Galas , Germaine Greer , Ian MacKaye , Kurt Cobain , Lenny Bruce , Letters from Rosie , Lydia Lunch , Riot Grrrl
So I wrote back to Rosie, following her previous email, stating that I wasn’t sure that many of us have the constancy she claims on our behalf – that we all contradict ourselves and doubt ourselves and (speaking personally) sometimes wish we could be co-opted by the mainstream, but that it’s long since occurred to […]