Ardent Mythology: Following The Libertines
By Alexis Late A lot of well-worshipped musicians tend to have a web of mythology encompassing them. Sometimes it’s created by scandal loving press and is, not surprisingly, flawed or exaggerated; sometimes it’s unearthed by fans through intimate obsession, or woven by the artists themselves, as they make their manifestos public. The Libertines were a […]
Singles Club: The Vines – Metal Zone
Justin Edwards: I can only apologise in advance… So The Vines are BACK!!! BACK!!! BACK!!! and they’ve put out two songs in the last week. Conor McNicholas’s tenure as Editor of NME (before he left for his dream job at Top Gear magazine) didn’t have a lot of high points but the apology for The […]
Dirty Jeans – The Rise of Australian Alternative Rock (…from a non-Australian music critic)
Well, how bloody convenient! So here we were, musing about how Triple J has gripped the Aussie music industry so tightly that even writers are falling all over each other to sound exactly alike – when along comes this compilation. Fantastic! Now we have here a bona fide aural coffee table book – 25 tracks, […]
Eleven records I wish I liked more
Liking most of these more wouldn’t half of made my life easier, at various stages. Would it have been too much of a compromise to make? Apparently so.
Nirvana ARE the most influential band since The Beatles – and here are 24 reasons why
By Niall Connolly
In Numbers: Splendour In The Grass 2011
The reason Splendour hasn’t sold out instantaneously, as it normally does, is that the line-up doesn’t justify the price.
