Added on August 8, 2012
Princess Stomper
Amebix , Battles , Call of Cthulhu , Eric Plourde , Front Line Assembly , Glasser , Grimes , Karda Estra , Knifeworld , Kozyndan , La Mar Enfortuna , Levitation , Loop , Lykke Li , Mark Rothko , MC Escher , Metallica , Necessary , Nine Inch Nails , Princess Stomper , Rammstein , Salvador Dali , She & Him , Steve Reich , Tashaki Miyaki , The Beatles , The Shins , Thinking Plague , Tool , Zdzislaw Beksinski
The thunking riffs are suitably portentous, but the amusing video would have tickled Beksinski’s reportedly excellent sense of humour.
Added on January 25, 2012
Lucy
best of 2011 , Bjork , I Break Horses , Icona Pop , Lucy Cage , Lykke Li , Robyn , Sacred Harp , Scandipop , The Knife , Those Dancing Days
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.
Added on December 16, 2011
Wallace Wylie
alex ross , Austra , Barbara Panther , best of 2011 , Bjork , Dave Tompkins , Destroyer , Emika , james blake , Lana Del Rey , Lykke Li , Phil Ochs , Radiohead , Richard Youngs , The Drums , The Fall , The Mountain Goats , Tunabunny , Wallace Wylie , Yelle
Don’t pull your pants. Buy this album instead.
Added on September 9, 2011
Everett True
Everett True , Goyte , Icehouse , kimbra , Lykke Li , Nina Simone , Triple J
Kimbra. She’s like Lykke Li, only really fucking perky.
Added on April 15, 2011
Everett True
Arcade Fire , Cults , Everett True , Hannah Golightly , Lucy Cage , Lykke Li , Muse , Odd Future , Wallace Wylie
This talk of reverence and inheritance worries me. The idea that you should shut the fuck up because your progenitors haven’t yet been accorded their rightful due is so damn paralysing.
Added on March 26, 2011
Everett True
Agent Ribbons , Armedalite Rifles , Belle And Sebastian , Coolies , Cornershop , Crass , Edwin Hawkins Singers , Edwyn Collins , Fever Fever , Frankie Rose And The Outs , Hotpants Romance , It Sound , Jonathan Richman , kyü , Las Kellies , Lispector , Lykke Li , Nico's Bike , Orange Juice , Pete And The Pirates , Pigeonhed , PJ Harvey , Pris , Scarce , Shannon And The Clams , She Makes War , Sheezer , Sky Needle , Song Of The Day , Talulah Gosh , The Cheapmunks , The Dandelions , The Distractions , The Konki Duet , The Lovely Eggs , The Loves , The Nuns , The Slits , Thee Spivs , Top 40 , Tunabunny
fluttering wing-movements and stuttering synth breaks and fluting woodwind and those stunning voices
Added on March 22, 2011
Everett True
Chris Weingarten , Cults , Hannah Golightly , Jessica Hopper , Lily Allen , Lykke Li , No Age , oneupmanship , Portishead , Radiohead , Stephen Potter , SxSW , Twitter , Vice
Maybe you too aren’t lucky enough to exist within the reach of the post-No Age kids, and aren’t a Vice editor. Don’t be worried. Come enjoy this. Music to make you swoon.
Added on March 21, 2011
Lucy
Adele , Amy Winehouse , Atlantic , Bjork , CocoRosie , Joanna Newsom , Laura Marling , Lucy Cage , Lykke Li , The Unthanks , Wounded Rhymes , Youth Novels
The kitchen-sink clattering of Youth Novels has been replaced by enormous thunderous drums, multi-tracked heavenly choirs, and melodies that come in great trembling reverberations.
Added on February 25, 2011
Everett True
Hole , Jools Holland , Let England Shake , Lykke Li , Melody Maker , Nick Cave , PJ Harvey , Radiohead , Riot Grrrl , Wounded Rhymes
Sure, I’m as intrigued as anyone. She polarises. Much of me wants to hate her, for the preciousness that surrounds her, the way she receives accolades usually reserved for male artists – why is it never the other way around? – for her treatment of music as art. Someone is putting her in for the […]
