Added on August 8, 2012
Princess Stomper
Amebix , Battles , Call of Cthulhu , Eric Plourde , Front Line Assembly , Glasser , Grimes , Karda Estra , Knifeworld , Kozyndan , La Mar Enfortuna , Levitation , Loop , Lykke Li , Mark Rothko , MC Escher , Metallica , Necessary , Nine Inch Nails , Princess Stomper , Rammstein , Salvador Dali , She & Him , Steve Reich , Tashaki Miyaki , The Beatles , The Shins , Thinking Plague , Tool , Zdzislaw Beksinski
The thunking riffs are suitably portentous, but the amusing video would have tickled Beksinski’s reportedly excellent sense of humour.
Added on July 15, 2012
Lucy
Beach House , Berangere Maximin , best of 2012 , BoA , Chairlift , Death Grips , Dirty Projectors , Here We Go Magic , Human Don’t Be Angry , Japandroids , Lucy Cage , M.I.A. , metric , Miike Snow (ft Lykke Li) , Plan B , Poliça , Riz MC (ft Plan B & Aruba Red) , Santigold , Shrag , Soko , Spoek Mathambo , The Shins , THEESatisfaction , US Girls
Sparky, desperate, rough-edged, delirium-fuelled, defiant, shouty boy pop. There’s a place for it, you know.
Added on April 11, 2012
Scott Creney
Bob Dylan , Cody Chesnutt , Elliott Smith , Grimes , Scott Creney , Sebadoh , The Head and the Heart , The Shins , Tom Waits , Wesley Willis , Willis Earl Beal
There’s a righteousness at the heart of these songs, a riveting freedom that makes Contemporary Indie — cute, smug, obvious, self-obsessed, eager to please — seem hilariously and stupidly irrelevant.
Added on January 13, 2012
Wallace Wylie
4AD , Bon Iver , Jessie J , rage against the machine , The Shins , Wallace Wylie
The update sparked two replies and got 9 ‘likes’, the second highest amount McMillan has ever gotten for a status update.
Added on November 8, 2011
Scott Creney
Ballard , Burroughs , Days , Domino , Dostoevsky , Gass , Pynchon , Real Estate , Scott Creney , Stephen King , The Charlatans , The Shins
Days is pretty. It’s easy on the ears, well-manicured, and impeccably tasteful.
Added on March 31, 2011
Scott Creney
Animal Collective , Arcade Fire , Best Coast , Big Black , Butthole Surfers , Conflict , Daniel Johnston , Electrelane , Forced Exposure , indie rock , Joanna Newsom , Katy Perry , Melody Maker , Minutemen , Mudhoney , Nirvana , Of Montreal , Pavement , Pitchfork , Rolling Stone , Scott Creney , Sonic Youth , Spin , The Books , The Shins , The Suburbs , Tunabunny , TV On The Radio , Vampire Weekend , Vivian Girls
A band like Arcade Fire has a hell of a lot more in common with Katy Perry than it does with Daniel Johnston.
Added on February 25, 2011
Wallace Wylie
advertising , alternative , AT&T , Beat Generation , Bill Hicks , corporate , counter-culture , indie , iron and wine , Lady Gaga , McDonalds , Pitchfork , Ryan Adams , selling-out , The Clash , The Decemberists , The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart , The Shins , Tommy Hilfiger , Vampire Weekend
First off, we need to define alternative culture. Is it something that provides values for those who identify with it, or is it just mainstream culture decked out in thrift store apparel?
Added on September 3, 2010
Everett True
Brisbane , Elvis Costello , Facebook , John Castle , Katie Noonan , Katy Perry , Kelis , Lady Gaga , Megan Washington , Melbourne , Mess And Noise , pop music , Rihanna , Sarah Blasko , Spicks And Specks , The Shins , The Vine , Tori Amos , Twitter , Washington
I wrote a review of the new Washington album for The Vine. You can find it here. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Washington I Believe You Liar (Universal Music) Australia. You worry me sometimes. I’ve seen this album hailed as 2010’s saviour of pop. (This is what happens when you allow fucking radio presenters to moonlight as music critics, […]
