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Watch: Charli XCX – The F Word and Me

Watch: Charli XCX – The F Word and Me

Collapse Board favourite, Charli XCX has made a documentary for BBC3 about feminism. Even though it only really scrapes the surface and is more of a tour diary with some interviews included as opposed to solely being an in-depth assessment/analysis of being a woman in the music industry in 2015, you should watch it. Just […]

 Everett True

The importance of being Helen

The importance of being Helen

I have two mice.  One for good thoughts, one for evil. Forgive while I wallow for a little in one of those years I have no memory of: 1983, say.  Somewhere, I lost track.  Somewhere I lost sight of the… I’m thinking of what your fingers would look like holding this mouse, the stretch and […]

 Everett True

Yesterday and today: favourite songs of the Interweb (volume three)

Yesterday and today: favourite songs of the Interweb (volume three)

School was out. Now it’s back in again. The idea behind much of Collapse Board is to find new ways of presenting you with music you may not have heard before. Click on the high grades! These are the folk who’ve gone the extra mile. Click on the low! All taste is equal yet different. Grades […]

 Everett True

Lesley Gore R.I.P.

Lesley Gore R.I.P.

Feminist icon and inspirational pop singer Lesley Gore has died in a New York hospital, aged 68, from lung cancer. I love Lesley Gore’s music. She’s always one of my go-to references when I want to refer to a certain type of 6os girl group/teenage heartbreak music – indeed, I mentioned her in yesterday’s Song of […]

 Everett True

Yesterday and today: favourite songs of the Interweb (volume two)

Yesterday and today: favourite songs of the Interweb (volume two)

The idea behind this series is to find a new way of presenting you with music you may not have heard before. Click on the high grades! These are the music students who’ve gone the extra mile. Click on the low! All taste is equal yet different. And yes, there will be a test afterwards. Grades go […]

 Everett True

Is it OK to write negative reviews of other people’s music?

Is it OK to write negative reviews of other people’s music?

So, we opened up the “secret” Collapse Board Contributors Facebook group to a few hundred readers the other day. Cue much confusion and hilarity and the odd piece of incredible music being shared. After the usual butt-clenching and soul-wringing and back-slapping, a few folk posited that they could indeed write some stuff for Collapse Board […]

 Everett True

Yesterday and today: favourite songs of the Interweb (volume one)

Yesterday and today: favourite songs of the Interweb (volume one)

To celebrate the new enlarged, enlightened Collapse Board contributors Facebook group, I asked all members to nominate their favourite songs of the day – one old, one new. Here are the results. Grades go HD (High Distinction), D (Distinction), C (Credit), P (Pass), F (Fail) OLD: Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out NEW: Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love GRADE: […]

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No one sent us the new Taylor Swift album to review

No one sent us the new Taylor Swift album to review

So no one sent us the new Taylor Swift album to review.  It’s a shame as we would have done our best to buck the trend and not have another review written by a male reviewer. Spot the difference: NME’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Matthew Horton Rolling Stone’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by […]

 Lee Adcock

Girls Rock Athens! – Live Review Of a Free Youth Concert

Girls Rock Athens! – Live Review Of a Free Youth Concert

When you fall in love with Tunabunny, you fall in love with this notion of freedom – dontcha? And when you watch the videos, and you read that this whimsical place of light and paint is Athens, Georgia, you connect the two, and believe that some happy magic in the soil must nurture this pink […]

 Lee Adcock

5 Seconds of Summer – s/t (Capitol)

5 Seconds of Summer – s/t (Capitol)

(And before you protest – “But Lee, how dare you bash pop music” – I direct you to this. Read it and weep, you smug little louts.) Any 20-something American probably recalls the irrepressible refrain from Fall Out Boy rebounding down their school halls – “down, down, in an earlier round, / sugar we’re going […]

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