thoughts on the new Washington song, ‘Holy Moses’
‘Holy Moses’ is potentially the single best song Washington’s ever released.
A biography of Ed Kuepper, written in 2000
In the early 90s, a select band of music critics at Melody Maker would regularly compete with one another to find fresh ways to praise the moody Australian genius.
Fading Celluloid and Fading Memories – The Artistic Triumph of The Go-Betweens’ Before Hollywood
Its genius remains undimmed.
A Hipster Doofus, Edified; or, how I Stopped Worrying and Started to Love the Drake
It was a simple statement, made on a friend’s Facebook status. “I never got what the big deal is about Nick Drake.”
Males making a career of being blue: masculinity and moroseness in alternative music
Why is that male-fronted bands are more easily notorious for emotionality than any similarly visceral girl-fronted bands?
Odd Future and sexism etc
Many men still feel that endless misogynistic ‘jokes’ are ultimately harmless and that everyone should just get a sense of humour.
Song of the day – 290: PJ Harvey (a mini-review)
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 […]
Review of Wolf-Wolf, Indiewolf, and Pearbear at TeenageHairWaste
Walking home from the gig I started to think about the solid future of indie rock as a genre and how interesting and different bands are.
Plan B Magazine #3
John Peel dying was a big deal for many of us, especially as it was so unexpected.
Song of the day – 213: La Mômo
Worthing’s answer to the delicate, frayed English pop of Robert Wyatt – only shaken up and down, given a good stomping and bashed about gleefully
