Lucy Cage

Beautiful Things of 2011: Scandipop goddesses

Beautiful Things of 2011: Scandipop goddesses

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.


The Curious Case of The Antlers

If after six plays of a song you are left with absolutely no idea what it sounds like it has surely failed some kind of crucial test.


The Withered Hand Christmas Special

The Withered Hand Christmas Special

The best Christmas songs will get you joining impromptu choirs and crying into your eggnog.


The 10 Best Coldplay Covers?!

The 10 Best Coldplay Covers?!

Really, just open your minds and dance, ya snobby fucks.


Letter to a Disgruntled Gotye Fan

Letter to a Disgruntled Gotye Fan

We’re not running workshops for the mediocre musician here.


An almost completely random collection of things I’ve loved so far in 2011

Yup, my heart is yours, you Scots, ‘unfaithful servants of filthy, fucking language’, as Mr Withered Hand says.


Kristin Hersh – Paradoxical Undressing

Kristin Hersh - Paradoxical Undressing

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.


Who Gives a Fuck?

Who Gives a Fuck?

Crass make me feel like the ignorant, posh, privileged, complacent, white dabbler that I am. And so they fucking should.


A Dialogue With Cunts

A Dialogue With Cunts

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.