Added on December 6, 2012
Mike Turner
Alabama Shakes , Animal Collective , Ariel Pink , Bats For Lashes , Beach Fossils , Beach House , best of 2012 , Captured Tracks , Clinic , Cold Pumas , Deerhoof , DIIV , Dirty Projectors , Dum Dum Girls , Grimes , Grizzly Bear , Jack White , Japandroids , La La Vasquez , Laetitia Sadier , mac demarco , Micachu and the Shapes , Mike Turner , Minutemen , Mumford & Sons , Naomi Punk , New Order , Of Montreal , Passion Pit , Pixies , Shins , Tame Impala , Tears For Fears , The Bastards of Fate , The School , Twin Shadow , Wild Nothing , Windowspeak , Yo La Tengo
Dum Dum Girls had a massive year — the Coke Zero of the indie world. You know, same taste as the original formula but not as filling.
Added on September 16, 2011
Everett True
Blue Thunder , Ceremony , Dean Wareham , Deconstructing the past , Everett True , Galaxie 500 , Joy Division , Melody Maker , Music criticism , Naomi Yang , New Order , Red Crayola , Victory Garden
Yes, fuck, sure, I was way more hip than you were
Added on September 12, 2011
Scott Creney
Blink 182 , editing , emo , Goth , Joy Division , Marilyn Manson , Music criticism , New Order , Scott Creney , The Cure , The Easy Cure
Nobody’s interested in hearing what you or I have to say, so we have to work a little harder for our credibility.
Added on June 3, 2011
Brigette
Athens , Axl Rose , Bernard Sumner , Billy Bragg , Cutoffs , Delta 5 , Homophobe , Kurt Cobain's skinny legs , Kylie Minogue , Morrissey , New Order , Nirvana , Popfest , Racist , Samuel Beckett , Short Pants , Shorts , Shortys , Smiths , Yoko Ono
Shorts have always been a little difficult to pull off.
Added on March 24, 2011
Wallace Wylie
808 State , A Guy Called Gerald , Acid House , Andy Weatherall , Aphex Twin , Arctic Monkeys , Blur , Bobby Gillespie , Bomb The Bass , Britpop , Cabaret Voltaire , Creation Records , Damon Albarn , Definitely Maybe , Depeche Mode , Derrick May , Fool's Gold , Frankie Knuckles , Gary Numan , Give Out But Don’t Give Up , Happy Mondays , Higher Than the Sun , House , Ian Brown , Jack Your Body , Jimmy Miller , Joy Division , Kula Shaker , Led Zeppelin , Let It Be , Loaded , Love , Massive Attack , Morrissey , New Order , Noel Gallagher , Oasis , Orange Juice , Orbital , Paul Weller , Pet Shop Boys , PiL , Primal Scream , Public Enemy , Sally Cinnamon , Screamadelica , Song Of The Day , Suede , Teenage Fanclub , The Associates , The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Black Crowes , The Boo Radleys , The Byrds , The Human League , The Jam , The KLF , The Libertines , The Orb , The Pastels , The Raincoats , The Rolling Stones , The Sex Pistols , The Slits , The Small Faces , The Smiths , The Soft Boys , The Stone Roses , The Strokes , The Wild Bunch , Uncle Tupelo , Vince Clarke , Visage , Wallace Wylie , We Call It Acieed , WFL , Yazoo
Large elements of the UK alternative press seemed to be waiting for the right guitar band to get behind, the right guitar band to believe in. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Stone Roses.
Added on March 3, 2011
Everett True
1980 , 2003 , Alison Statton , Alright , BBC Wales , Beat Happening , Cardiff , Colossal Youth , Courtney Love , Devine & Statton , Domino Records , Fall Of Saigon , Hole , Joy Division , Lois Maffeo , Melody Maker , New Order , new song , Nirvana , Olympia , Philip Moxham , Rough Trade Record Shop , Rough Trade Records , St David's Day , Stuart Moxham , Wales , Weekend , Young Marble Giants
After 30 years, a new Young Marble Giants song! And it doesn’t disgrace. It is so sweet, so melancholy, so understated, so Young Marble Giants.
Added on February 21, 2011
Wallace Wylie
Bill Withers , Brian Eno , Dan Bejar , David Sanborn , Destroyer , Guided By Voices , indie , Jazz , Kaputt , Leonard Cohen , Merge Records , New Order , New Pornographers , Pavement , Pitchfork , Roxy Music , Tapes 'n' Tapes
Kaputt is a dark city with no easy escape routes. Washed-out horns blow sorrowfully into the night.
Added on January 31, 2011
Emily
Brian Eno , Courtney Love , drugs , Gang Of Four , Joy Division , New Order , NME , Peter Saville , PiL , Pitchfork , post-punk , R. Kelly , The Slits , U2 , Vibe , Wire
1. “(INSERT FEMALE ROCK/POP MUSICIAN’S NAME HERE), THE BAD GIRL OF ROCK…” Description: Virtually every female musician who dyes her hair ‘punk’ colors and/or makes vaguely ‘rebellious’ (or quasi-feminist) pronouncements is saddled with this phrase in music reviews or featured interviews. This travesty of words has been going on since The Slits, and most notoriously […]
Added on November 23, 2010
Everett True
49 Americans , Athens , Bikini KIll , Georgia , New Order , Pavement , Pylon , Skinned Teen , The B-52s , The Slits , Tunabunny , Yoko Ono
Bangs wept. This music makes me deliriously happy. It clatters, it splatters, it shatters, it matters. I’ve listened to the album front to back, back to front, sideways, length ways, every which wrong ways, adored the New Order steals, the slices of unrequited Bikini Kill/Skinned Teen screaming, the tributes to the female Captain Beefheart, the […]