Dear Bobby Gillespie | Re: ‘It’s Alright, It’s OK’: it’s actually really not
It’s leather trousers worn by men in pubs. It’s an OAP still piling the remainder of his hair into his Teddy Boy quiff, which has over decades thinned to the point where it’s just a flimsy hint, a ghost of a style.
Another letter to the poor sods at Uncool magazine…
“Mumford & Sons’ singular importance in rock’s current moment cannot be underestimated,” is not a sentence I ever imagined I’d read.
22 Songs I Loved in 2012 by Lucy Cage
Sparky, desperate, rough-edged, delirium-fuelled, defiant, shouty boy pop. There’s a place for it, you know.
Live Review | Boredoms, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Minehead, UK, 11.03.12
Seriously, the best thing I have ever seen.
Live Review | All Tomorrow Parties curated by Jeff Mangum, Butlins, Minehead, UK, 09-11.03.12
Sometimes it’s just fine to have good old-fashioned fun at the seaside.
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 best Christmas songs will get you joining impromptu choirs and crying into your eggnog.
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
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?
Crass make me feel like the ignorant, posh, privileged, complacent, white dabbler that I am. And so they fucking should.
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.
