Added on March 28, 2011
Everett True
Dolores O'Riordan , Imagine , John Lennon , Madonna , Melody Maker , Phil Spector , Ramones , Taylor Parkes , The Beatles , The Cranberries , To The Faithful Departed
It’s a weak, flimsy premise for a song: not thought-through, sappy, opportunistic, smug, the opposite of naive … something that this song is often called by its defenders.
Added on March 24, 2011
Wallace Wylie
808 State , A Guy Called Gerald , Acid House , Andy Weatherall , Aphex Twin , Arctic Monkeys , Blur , Bobby Gillespie , Bomb The Bass , Britpop , Cabaret Voltaire , Creation Records , Damon Albarn , Definitely Maybe , Depeche Mode , Derrick May , Fool's Gold , Frankie Knuckles , Gary Numan , Give Out But Don’t Give Up , Happy Mondays , Higher Than the Sun , House , Ian Brown , Jack Your Body , Jimmy Miller , Joy Division , Kula Shaker , Led Zeppelin , Let It Be , Loaded , Love , Massive Attack , Morrissey , New Order , Noel Gallagher , Oasis , Orange Juice , Orbital , Paul Weller , Pet Shop Boys , PiL , Primal Scream , Public Enemy , Sally Cinnamon , Screamadelica , Song Of The Day , Suede , Teenage Fanclub , The Associates , The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Black Crowes , The Boo Radleys , The Byrds , The Human League , The Jam , The KLF , The Libertines , The Orb , The Pastels , The Raincoats , The Rolling Stones , The Sex Pistols , The Slits , The Small Faces , The Smiths , The Soft Boys , The Stone Roses , The Strokes , The Wild Bunch , Uncle Tupelo , Vince Clarke , Visage , Wallace Wylie , We Call It Acieed , WFL , Yazoo
Large elements of the UK alternative press seemed to be waiting for the right guitar band to get behind, the right guitar band to believe in. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Stone Roses.
Added on March 7, 2011
Everett True
Bikini KIll , Bratmobile , Bumpidee Reader , Bust , feminism , femme-pop , Hell Woman , Huggy Bear , Morgan and the Organ Donors , Olympia , punk rock , Riot Grrrl , Tacoma , Talulah Gosh , The Stranger , Tobi Vail , Weekly Volcano , Weird TV
Jason Baxter sent me the following questions as part of his research for an article he was writing for the Tacoma/Olympia alternative weekly, The Weekly Volcano. The article has since been published, under the title Revolution Girl-Style: Then and Now. How did you hear about Morgan And The Organ Donors and Weird TV? Do you make […]
Added on February 20, 2011
Everett True
Al Horner , blogging , Drowned In Sound , Facebook , Fleet Foxes , Hole 2.0 , Music criticism , music critics , music industry , NME , Pitchfork , Radiohead , The Arcade Fire , The Guardian , The King Of Limbs , The National , Twitter , Vampire Weekend , web 2.0
You are a critic. Not a fan. Not a blogger. Not a hack. A critic.
Added on February 11, 2011
Everett True
Beat Portal , Careless Talk Costs Lives , Detroit , Dirtbombs , Fact Magazine , Infinite State Machine , Mick Collins
I sure as fuck would not be giving you the full Monty if I didn’t link you to these three sites. Each supplies a different Dirtbombs mix.
Added on February 8, 2011
Everett True
Brisbane , Kate Nash , Mess And Noise , The Hi-Fi , The Thin Kids , Young Men Dead
OMG! That’s us! We’re The Thin Kids! And we’re supporting Kate Nash! Sweet!!!
Added on February 7, 2011
Jodi Biddle
Brisbane , music industry , Pitchfork , Rave , Scene , sexism , street press , Time Off , Triple J , Triple J Hottest 100 , Tsunami
I was going to focus my article on examining the way language is used to present women in the street press. Until I encountered a problem. There are none!
Added on December 13, 2010
Everett True
Careless Talk Costs Lives , Detroit , Kraftwerk , Mick Collins , Steve Gullick , The Dirtbombs , The Gories
Damn. The Dirtbombs have a new album coming out. Damn. You know how exciting that is? Damn. Have you actually heard it? DAMN!
Added on December 1, 2010
Everett True
Brisbane , Broadcast , Charles Cross , France Morgan , free tickets , giveaway , Heavier Than Heaven , Kurt Cobain , Melbourne , Nirvana , Perth , Pikelet , Plan B Magazine , Popfrenzy , Seekae , Sydney , Warp
The way free giveaways usually work is this. You get to sign up to some dumb mailing list that you spend the next six months desperately trying to unsubscribe from You get to answer some dumb question relating to the band and/or record label and/or website, thereby giving the spurious illusion that there is some […]
Added on November 11, 2010
Everett True
!!! , Chicks On Speed , Electrelane , Graham Coxon , KaitO , Klang , Lightning Bolt , OOIOO , Plan B Magazine , Plan B Magazine #0 , Spektrum , Sunn O)))) , The Mountain Goats , The Pastels , The Von Bondies
OK. Here’s the first in the series. I’m still trying to figure out the best way of doing this, so apologies if any of this seems clumsy. I’m planning on putting these up twice a week until we’ve got the entire run of Plan B Magazine back up online. Any suggestions on how to streamline […]
