Added on June 6, 2014
Lee Adcock
Cassette of the week , Crispy Ambulance , Durutti Column , Lee Adcock , post-punk , White Poppy
(Well, actually, if you want to be politically correct about it, this is actually the cassette of last month, but Gold Flake Paint wouldn’t have it. But you don’t mind, do you? Of course you don’t.) There’s a shadowy past oft forgotten by post-punk auteurs, a gray zone of specters and light in a hazy […]
Added on May 31, 2014
Everett True
Everett True , Jangle-Pop , Nirvana , post-punk , punk , Song of the day , The Cranberries , The Cure , The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart , The Sundays
All music reminds me of the past. How can it not? The comments underneath this clip of music mention variously The Cure, Nirvana, The Cranberries, punk, post-punk, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, jangle pop… and I will throw in a guess at them being Scandinavian, probably with a couple of boy members. This goes to […]
Added on July 31, 2013
Everett True
Androids of Mu , Bona Dish , Everett True , Hissey Miyake , post-punk , Scrabble , Song of the day , The Petticoats , Twelve Cubic Feet
The only question you need to hold in your head today is “Does it pass the Scrabble test”? Why yes. Yes, I believe it does.
Added on June 1, 2013
Everett True
Delta 5 , Divorce , ESG , Everett True , Gang Of Four , Glasgow , post-punk , Savages , Shoplifting , Shopping , Song of the day
Give ’em time, I reckon. They’ve got energy, attitude, a spark. Let’s see if they turn into a Savages or a Divorce. I know which side of the line I’ll be cheering from.
Added on July 22, 2011
Tom Randall
album review , Big Black , Gang Of Four , Iceage , Joy Division , Music criticism , New Brigade , post-punk , Tom Randall , What's Your Rupture?
Iceage have the wisdom to be brief: what they evoke is too much to bear for too long.
Added on June 28, 2011
Laura Crapo
album review , Arabia Mountain , Iggy Pop , Laura Crapo , Mark Twain , Music criticism , post-punk , The Black Lips , The Clash , Vice
I am often asking a boyfriend to consider rocking the moustache – if only for a week.
Added on March 24, 2011
Everett True
Arthur Russell , ATV , Commercial Zone , Debbie Harry , Family Fodder , New Age Steppers , Post Punk Progressive Party , post-punk , Robert Wyatt , Swell Maps , The Door And The Window , The Raincoats , The Red Crayola , The Slits , This Heat , Twelve Cubic Feet
You can hear elements of everyone that mattered … Swell Maps, New Age Steppers, This Heat, The Door And The Window, ATV, Twelve Cubic Feet, Robert Wyatt, The Raincoats, Arthur Russell, The Slits …
Added on March 11, 2011
Everett True
ATV , Best Coast , Blank Realm , Brisbane , Dunedin , Eddie Vedder , edgy , Eternal Soundcheck , Flying Nun , Hamish Kilgour , MGMT , Neu! , Panel Of Judges , Pavement , post-punk , Robert Scott , Songs , Sonic Youth , Spiral Stairs , Tally Ho , The Bats , The Clean , The Clientele , The Deadnotes , the Dunedin Sound , The Go-Betweens , The Laughing Clowns , The Legend , The Thin Kids , The Velvet Underground , The Vine , The Zoo , Turn It Up , Yo La Tengo
I doubt if there’s a single person here who undervalues The Clean’s beauty, their vivid guitar storms punctuated by trebly guitar excess and bursts of down-home, deprecating humour.
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 October 16, 2010
Everett True
A Certain Ratio , Brisbane , Buzzcocks , Chelmsford , Deptford , Dinosaur Jr , Factory Records , Husker Du , Joy Division , Manchester , Mike Finney , Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark , Otis Redding , post-punk , punk , Restricted Code , Steve Perrin , The Clash , The Distractions , The Jam , The Scars , The Undertones , TJM , Wah , You're Not Going Out Dressed Like That
It’s great! Great, I tell you! None of the poignancy has been diminished by the passing years, only increased.
