Added on December 31, 2013
Tamsin
2013 , Blouse , Britney Spears , Cherry Glazerr , Don't Cry Shopgirl , Eigengrau , FKA twigs , King of Cats , Lamplighter , Pearl Mystic , Pusha T , Royal Flush , Sly & The Family Drone , Tamsin Chapman , Teenage Burritos , Terry Malts , The Fireworks , The Gooch Palms , The Haxan Cloak , The Space Lady , The Stranger , Vox Populi!
Disclaimer: this is self-indulgent, but it has a bearing on my choices. You know the monster balloon in The Prisoner – Rover? Well just lately, there’s been an intermittent ball of sad (or anxiety or both) hovering nearby, just in my line of sight. Sometimes it’s come so close it’s jumped inside me, a tight […]
Added on July 16, 2013
Everett True
Chastity Belt , Everett True , Hot Fruit , Sarah Creighton , Seattle , The Stranger
Someone commented on Hot Fruit thus: “I love women who produce art for themselves and don’t ask for your approval. Women can be brave and rude and intelligent. Women can make you uncomfortable and they can set their own terms.”
Added on November 18, 2012
Everett True
Dirty Sanchez , Everett True , Nirvana , NY Press , Seattle , Soul Coughing , The Stranger , The Verlaines
“Do you know how I know if a record of mine’s going to be a hit?” asked the label head rhetorically. “If Everett True is throwing up in my bathroom at the Rhiga at 3 a.m. during CMJ, it’s going to be a hit.”
Added on July 26, 2012
Everett True
Bettie Serveert , Ed's Redeeming Qualities , Everett True , Seattle WA , The Breeders , The Cannanes , The Groceries , The Stranger
The Groceries were my secret crush, mine and mine alone, and I never even knew what they looked like.
Added on July 25, 2012
Everett True
Clive Barker , Everett True , Gerry Anderson , Gilbert Shelton , Hunter S. Thompson , Iain Banks , Peter Bagge , Ralph Steadman , Robert Crumb , Savage Pencil , Songbook Series , The Stranger
Wow, I was in a fucking terrible mood when I wrote this one.
Added on November 29, 2011
Everett True
Billy Corgan , Everett True , Gish , Machina: The Machines Of God , Melody Maker , Pearl Jam , Siamese Dream , Smashing Pumpkins , The Stranger
I despise pomposity above almost everything, even when it’s hilarious. The Smashing Pumpkins aren’t hilarious.
Added on September 21, 2011
Everett True
Blowjob , Chelmsford , Eskimo , Everett True , Fixed Grin , Genesis , Meet the Residents , Melody Maker , Not Available , Ramones , The Fall , The Residents , The Stranger , Third Reich'N'Roll , Throbbing Gristle , Top Of The Pops
The band’s name? Blowjob. My cool, cruel friends had told me it was because I blew down the recorder. Bastards.
Added on May 25, 2011
Everett True
amazon , Autoboosh , Brighton , Careless Talk Costs Lives , Cat Power , Chan Marshall , Chicken Run , Coldplay , Dad's Army , Damaged Goods , Dublin , Dusty Springfield , Dusty The Musical , Elliott Smith , Front , Fun Lovin' Criminals , Graft , Grunge: The Everett True Years , Have I Got News For You , Hobomedia , Hunt Emerson , Jamie Sellers , John Robb , Jon Slade , Kathryn Williams , Kevin Shields , King's Reach Tower , Kurt Cobain , London , Mari Wilson , Mark Lamarr , Martin James , Mary Timony , Maslam , Maxim , Melody Maker , Metroland , Minesweeper , ninetynine , NME , Oasis , Passport To Pimlico , Peanuts , Plan B Magazine , Quasi , Reggie Perrin , Ronald Searle , Royal Trux , Seattle , Sleater-Kinney , Sonic Youth , Steven Berkoff , Supergrass , Tangents , The Browning Version , The Go-Betweens , The Guardian , the Millennium Dome , The Onion , The Simpsons , The Spice Girls , The Stranger , The Sun , The X-Files , Theatre Royal , Tony Benn , Uncut , Wichita Records
I want a little glamour around my presence: glamour is the last thing I possess right now. I don’t know if I’ll ever recapture that mood again.
Added on March 7, 2011
Everett True
Bikini KIll , Bratmobile , Bumpidee Reader , Bust , feminism , femme-pop , Hell Woman , Huggy Bear , Morgan and the Organ Donors , Olympia , punk rock , Riot Grrrl , Tacoma , Talulah Gosh , The Stranger , Tobi Vail , Weekly Volcano , Weird TV
Jason Baxter sent me the following questions as part of his research for an article he was writing for the Tacoma/Olympia alternative weekly, The Weekly Volcano. The article has since been published, under the title Revolution Girl-Style: Then and Now. How did you hear about Morgan And The Organ Donors and Weird TV? Do you make […]
