And it was mostly pop. Girls making pop. Very few of the bands I loved this year consisted of four white boys with guitars, although that template has been responsible for some fairly monumental things over the last four or five decades.
Jan 25, 2012 | Categories: Lucy Cage | Tags: best of 2011, Bjork, I Break Horses, Icona Pop, Lucy Cage, Lykke Li, Robyn, Sacred Harp, Scandipop, The Knife, Those Dancing Days | 2 Comments »
The best Christmas songs will get you joining impromptu choirs and crying into your eggnog.
Dec 15, 2011 | Categories: Lucy Cage | Tags: Aidan Moffat, best of 2011, Christmas, Dan Willson, Darren Hayman, Edinburgh, Fairytale of New York, Hefner, John Vanderslice, Malcolm Middleton, Mark Eitzel, sufjan stevens, Vic Chesnutt, Withered Hand | 1 Comment »
Really, just open your minds and dance, ya snobby fucks.
Oct 28, 2011 | Categories: Lucy Cage | Tags: Alicia Keys, Coldplay, Ellie Goulding, Mark Ronson, Noah & the Whale, Pet Shop Boys, Robyn, Scala & the Kolacny Brothers, Willie Nelson | 20 Comments »
Yup, my heart is yours, you Scots, ‘unfaithful servants of filthy, fucking language’, as Mr Withered Hand says.
Aug 05, 2011 | Categories: Lucy Cage | Tags: Aidan Moffat, Braids, Chris Trout, DrownedinSound, Everything Everything, Field Music, Hawkwind, HHBTM, Jon Hopkins, King Creosote, Lady Chann, Luke Haines, Malcolm Middleton, Mechanical Bride, Metronomy, Neil Kulkarni, Nicola Roberts, Orca Team, Patrick Wolf, Pumajaw, Rihanna, Steve Albini, Swimmer One, The Quietus, Wendy Roby, Wild Beasts, Withered Hand, XTC | 8 Comments »
She writes of being haunted by songs, battered and tormented and bullied until she can get them down and safe. It’s not craft, it’s alchemy.
May 18, 2011 | Categories: Lucy Cage | Tags: 4AD, Book reviews, Boston, Chains Changed, David Narcizo, House Tornado, In A Doghouse, Ivo Watts-Russell, Kristin Hersh, Kristin Hersh - Paradoxical Undressing, Leslie Langston, Lucy Cage, Paradoxical Undressing, Paradoxical Undressing review, Pixies, Providence, Rat Girl, Rhode Island, Tanya Donelly, Throwing Muses | 9 Comments »
Crass make me feel like the ignorant, posh, privileged, complacent, white dabbler that I am. And so they fucking should.
May 11, 2011 | Categories: Lucy Cage | Tags: Boys From The Black Stuff, Cathy Come Home, Crass, Lucy Cage, Shelter, The Independent, U.K | 4 Comments »
Of course we’re ungrateful, you patronising fuckwit. What exactly gives people who have cocks the authority to give or take human rights from people who have cunts? Absolutely nothing.
Mar 02, 2011 | Categories: Lucy Cage | Tags: feminism, Lucy Cage, Riot Grrrl, sexism etc, somethingtocryfor, Susan B. Anthony, Suzanne Moore, The Guardian, The Revolution, web 2.0, “No Dialogue With Suspect People. No Dialogue With Cunts” | 9 Comments »
