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Collapse Board’s Belated Worst of 2016

Collapse Board’s Belated Worst of 2016

In the run-up to the end of 2016, there we all were in the Collapse Board contributor’s forum discussing the worst music of the year.  Consensus was being reached reasonably easily as the same names kept cropping up, when we suddenly found that we’d been beaten to the punch by triple j of all people, […]

 Everett True

A playlist for Charlie Hebdo

A playlist for Charlie Hebdo

I just want to pay tribute, however insignificant. However off-the-mark. A friend put it well on Facebook: “I was raised to believe that everything in the world was open to question and ridicule. Clearly this was a misguided liberal notion.” The people targeted and killed yesterday were cartoonists and satirists. Not politicians, not soldiers, not police, […]

 Everett True

50 bands I have seen

Always worth repeating.

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“Music fans have to stop being so fucking menopausal” | An interview about teens, emos, chavs, music

Subcultures stop being creative as soon as they become aware of themselves as subcultures.

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Howard Monk | Things I am embarrassed about – Number one in a series

So you’ll have these obscure bands being lauded, and mortals like us trying to figure out just what it was that XXXX found in their music.

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NME introduces the one-word music review

As noted in last Thursday’s post, veteran music rag Spin has pronounced the traditional album review dead.

 Everett True

An Idiot’s Guide to Promoting Your Band on Facebook

Here’s the deal. You got a problem with me on Facebook? Don’t fucking befriend me then.

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Safe as ducklings: triple j to launch new Australian-only digital radio station, Unearthed

The best bands, the true greats, created their work because they had to.

 Jean Encoule

TAPES … FUCKING TAPES!!!

In many ways, Terminal Escape is the most useful new music tool of this or any other epoch

 Tamsin

Over the last few days, half of England burned. The other half talked witless bollocks about it.

Truth dies when news stories are reduced to binaries: good, evil, black, white, them, us. Difficult concepts are dumbed down into sound bites. We click ‘like’ and make a cup of tea.