Static Daydream – s/t (St. Marie)
Y’know, that character I conjured for the Viet Cong review wasn’t a total fiction. That pathetic, miserly anti-ego still rips holes in my skin, still tells me I can’t write whenever I sit down to the keyboard, still gets off on corpse-resting-on-marble-tomb stuff like Clan of Xymox. I know it’s that side of me that […]
Collapse Board: The 25th Most Influential Online Indie & Alternative Music Publication in the World
It was a completely unexpected but ever-so-slightly thrilling surprise to be scrolling through Style of Sound’s recent ‘Most Influential Online Indie & Alternative Music Publication in the World‘ publication a couple of weeks ago and see that Collapse Board was ranked at Number 25. Even more hilarious was being the highest ranked Australian-based site, which […]
Considering Pitchfork’s 200 Best 80’s Songs
By Scott Creney Ask anyone who’s ever worked for a literary magazine, democracy is a shitty way to evaluate art. The polarizing stuff rarely makes it through. Instead you end up with a bunch of B-plus material—competent, workmanlike. Or in the case of this week’s Pitchfork Top 200 Singles of the 80’s, you end up […]
Scott Creney’s Album Roundup: July 2015
July’s always been a shitty month for music. All the good mainstream stuff comes out at the beginning of the summer and all the good indie stuff waits until the college kids come back in the fall. Or maybe I just had a shitty month? I don’t know. All albums scored on the World […]
Noon:30 – Finding Release EP (HHBTM)
(This music is explicit. So this review is explicit. If that offends you in any way, FUCK OFF) I’ve been trying to write an intro paragraph here – something to prepare you for the radical Noon:30 and their unflinching sense of self – but my tongue keeps tripping. How do I recall that first shudder […]
