The Quality of Music and The Conformity of Youth | Dwindling Album Sales Explained
The real problem that the industry is dealing with these days is the lack of cultural importance given to popular music and the fact that popular music no longer has the same unifying power as it used to.
New Order – Lost Sirens (Rhino)
New Order have split up? Uh-huh. I don’t think so.
Hating Hipsters: How The Mainstream Hijacked Authenticity And Made Non-Conformity A Joke
Why exactly does the whole world want to distance itself from the term hipster?
22 of Wallace Wylie’s favourite songs of 2012 (most of which are actually from 2012) so far
2012. I’m not going to lie to you, it’s been a shit year in terms of my personal life.
THE ALTERNATE REVIEW: Can – Tago Mago (Spoon/Mute)
Can belong to the iconoclasts, the cynics, the lovers, the thinkers and the visionaries with hungry ears and a low threshold for boredom.
Song of the day – 276: Dirt Child (free download)
Dirt Child way gives the lie to the legion of white indie boys who go on, and on, about how there’s no good Australian hip hop. For sure.
