Clank. It’s retro-futuristic. The way music is supposed to sound in the 21st Century.
Sep 26, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: 16 Volt, Abe Vigoda, Battles, Chemlab, Chris Razor, clank, Coal Chamber, Faith No More, genre, Glasser, Gusto Extermination Fluid, H3llb3nt, Marnie Stern, Motor, Nice Nice, No Mas Bodas, Ohgr, Princess Stomper, Ruby, Skinny Puppy, Slipknot, Three Trapped Tigers, tUnE-yArDs | 5 Comments »
Have you read Lester Bangs? Guess what? He was a failed musician.
Sep 20, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Abba, Everybody Loves Raymond, Fleet Foxes, INXS, Led Zeppelin, Lester Bangs, Michael Jackson, Music criticism, Music Writing, Nirvana, Outkast, The Beatles, The World's Strongest Man, Wallace Wylie | 32 Comments »
A circle and its centre in search of a centre and a circle, respectively
Sep 15, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: centre, circle, Democritus, Either/Or, Geulincx, Hat Hut, in search of, Kierkegaard, Logan K. Young, Morton Feldman, Natasha Bedingfield, Neither, Phonogenic, Pretzel Logic, respectively, Samuel Beckett, These Words, Unwritten, Watt | Leave A Comment »
This is exactly the reason why the world needs Tyler and Odd Future. Shit can’t keep rolling like this.
Sep 14, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Diamond D, Dizzee Rascal, Eminem, hip-hop, Jay Z, Kanye West, NWA, Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, XL Recordings | 9 Comments »
There are tear drops on these journal pages. That’s what the smears are.
Sep 03, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Boo Frog, Erika Meyer, Eureka High School, feminism, How I Learned To Play Guitar, Music Writing, punk rock, Rosie Riveter, Seattle, sexism | 1 Comment »
They really don’t write ‘em like this anymore.
Sep 01, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Alladdin, anti-semitism, Dumbo, Gang Of Four, Louis Prima, Mumford & Sons, Phil Harris, racism, Robin Hood, Robin Williams, Roger Miiler, Roger Miller, Rudyard Kipling, Scatman Crothers, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Sun Ra, The Aristocats, The Jungle Book, Top Disney Songs, Wallace Wylie, Walt Disney | 12 Comments »
Nirvana had a bigger effect on American culture than any rock band since The Beatles. I was there, and anyone who tells you any differently is a goddamned liar.
Aug 24, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: album review, Bush, Colour Me Badd, Daniel Johnston, El Cajon, grunge, Husker Du, justin bieber, Kurt Cobain, Music criticism, My So-Called Life, Nirvana, Reagan, Reality Bites, Rimbaud, Scott Creney, Shakespeare, Shonen Knife, Stone Temple Pilots, The Improbably-named CeCe Peniston, The Raincoats, Top Gun | 40 Comments »
Just thought I’d spell this out. So sexism doesn’t exist in the music industry in 2011, huh?
Aug 19, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: criticism, Everett True, Krissi Murison, Let England Shake, Mike Williams, NME, Odd Future, Odd Future Wolfgang Kill Them All, PJ Harvey, sexism, sexism etc | 5 Comments »
Great rock music has less to do with ‘skill’ and ‘talent’ and more to do with a person’s ability to use music as an artistic medium.
Jul 26, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Carrie Brownstein, Chuck Berry, Dead Kennedys, Evergreen State College, Josie And The Pussycats, Olympia, Pete Seger, Ramones, Seattle, Sleater-Kinney, The Beatles, The Cramps, The Go Go’s | 26 Comments »
Jules Normington is a legend on the Australian Punk Rock Underground
Jul 18, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Adelaide, Billy Childish, Blondie, Celibate Rifles, Citadel, Crystal Set, Dagoes, Dead Boys, Debbie Harry, DefFX, Englebert Humperdink, GBH, Greg Shaw, Hellacopters, Hoodoo Gurus, JFK and the Cuban Crisis, Johnnies, jules normington, Laughing Outlaw, Lipstick Killers, Lonely Hearts, MC5, Messiah Complex, Milkshakes, Minuteman, Minutemen, Mitch Easter, New Christs, Passengers, Phantom records, Plan 9, R.E.M., Radio Birdman, Riot City, Sonic Youth, Spongetones, Stooges, Sunnyboys, Surfside 6, Sydney, the Chainsaws, the Deadly Hume, the Hummingbirds, The Kelpies, the Rockmelons, The Vanilla Chainsaws, Thought Criminals, Undertakers, Waterfront, X | 1 Comment »
Beck clones were everywhere and in their wake they rendered passionate feeling an embarrassing personality trait.
Jun 21, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: A Cinema Of Loneliness, American Apparel, Beck, Bed Intruder Song, Bonnie and Clyde, Caetano Veloso, Collapse Board, Fear Of A Black Planet, hip-hop, I'm On A Boat, John Hughes, John Waters, Lonely Island, Loudness Wars, Midnite Vultures, Modern Guilt, NWA, Odelay, Public Enemy, Quentin Tarantino, R & B, Robert Kolker, Sea Change, Stephen Malkmus, Taxi Driver, The Cramps, The Information, Wallace Wylie | 23 Comments »
The most common, negative opinion of Kreayshawn is that she’s a racist, privileged, appropriating, female misogynist.
Jun 17, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Facebook, Kelly McClure, Kreayshawn, Maya Angelou, racism, sexism, sexism etc, The Beastie Boys | 22 Comments »
Maybe Brisbane acts are less careerist than their southern counterparts, playing for fun rather than playing the game and trying to move towards world domination.
Jun 03, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane, Columns | Tags: 2011, Aampirellas, analysis, Architecture in Helsinki, Bernard Fanning, Brisbane, british india, Butterfingers, Cut Copy, Darren Hanlon, Dew Process, feature album, Freemantle, Grinspoon, Gyroscope, Hilltop Hoods, Hungry Kids of Hungary, John Butler Trio, Justin Edwards, Kings Of Leon, Powderfinger, Regurgitator, Resin Dogs, Sarah Blasko, Spencer Tracey, The Beautiful Girls, The Butterfly Effect, the cat empire, The Grates, Triple J, Universal, Washington | 10 Comments »
Any comp major will tell you, dude: Pretzel logic tastes like shite without theory’s spicy brown mustard.
May 31, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Allen Forte, atonal, Benediction, Demolished Thoughts, Illuminine, Joseph N. Straus, Logan K. Young, Matador, MatrixMakerX, MT Software, post-tonal, Pretzel Logic, set theory, Thurston Moore | Leave A Comment »
