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 Wallace Wylie

Ghost In Every Town – The Haunting Of Elliott Smith

Ghost In Every Town – The Haunting Of Elliott Smith

Smith’s songs were populated by back alley losers, moving in a moonlit world of cashed checks, track marks, and bad luck.

 Wallace Wylie

The Quality of Music and The Conformity of Youth | Dwindling Album Sales Explained

The Quality of Music and The Conformity of Youth | Dwindling Album Sales Explained

The real problem that the industry is dealing with these days is the lack of cultural importance given to popular music and the fact that popular music no longer has the same unifying power as it used to.

 Hannah Golightly

Ayla Nereo – BeHeld (self-released)

You could hop over stepping stones on a stream with your children to this.

 Hannah Golightly

Collapse Board's answer to the Moonrise Kingdom soundtrack

Yes, I am going to bend that spoon with my mind, so pay attention…

 Scott Creney

Willis Earl Beal – Acousmatic Sorcery (Hot Charity/XL)

There’s a righteousness at the heart of these songs, a riveting freedom that makes Contemporary Indie — cute, smug, obvious, self-obsessed, eager to please — seem hilariously and stupidly irrelevant.

 Wallace Wylie

English Blues – The Untold History of the Chunka-Chunka Song

It was The Supremes’ ‘Baby Love’ that really brought back that Chunka-Chunka feeling

 Wallace Wylie

We Don’t Have To Breed – Nirvana’s Nevermind and masculinity

Stuck with powerful sexual impulses, I convinced myself that to act on them was disrespectful and cheap.

 Joseph

A Hipster Doofus, Edified; or, how I Stopped Worrying and Started to Love the Drake

It was a simple statement, made on a friend’s Facebook status. “I never got what the big deal is about Nick Drake.”

 Everett True

Another One Of Those Days: Everett True’s July 2000 journal

I want a little glamour around my presence: glamour is the last thing I possess right now. I don’t know if I’ll ever recapture that mood again.

 Sophie

Males making a career of being blue: masculinity and moroseness in alternative music

Why is that male-fronted bands are more easily notorious for emotionality than any similarly visceral girl-fronted bands?