6 (and a bit) favourite musical encounters from the first half of 2011, around which the miscellany of life lies
Most are gigs. Music lives in open air.
Bollywood Ear Candy: Taal Se Taal Mila
It’s raining. Be passionate! The rainy season is the season of love!
Bollywood Ear Candy: Yeh Mera Dil
You can tell that Don is a world class bad-ass by his blazer alone.
Bollywood Ear Candy: Sheila Ki Jawani
Do you like fire? Chandeliers? Waking up from a nap to a dozen men in your bed wearing MC hammer pants thrusting their pelvises at your face?
Probably the Most Influential Manifesto of the Past 20 Years
Who started the fire? Arcade Fire did.
A Letter to Rocking Horse
That difference is the difference between a music industry and a music community.
How To Be A Female Musician Starting Out
Expect to have more replies to your ‘I’m Forming A Grrl Band’ poster and online ads from men than from women
10 Most Read Entries on Collapse Board since 1.1.11
“Having children gives you inhibition. There are things I couldn’t say any more because … people would get upset.”
Sexism etc – female music critics wanted for Collapse Board
Imagine if the music critic in Almost Famous had been female. Any chance at all she wouldn’t have been portrayed as a groupie?
