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 Princess Stomper

22 of Princess Stomper’s favourite songs of 2012 so far

This song is more infectious than Jeff Goldblum’s laptop in Independence Day

 Everett True

Eleven records I’m embarrassed about liking

I can only put my liking for this down to some kind of sadomasochistic sexual attraction towards Dolores; her personality and her voice. I really can’t account for it otherwise

 Scott Creney

Scott Creney reacts to Pitchfork’s reaction to M.I.A.’s Finger

Ryan Schreiber should be, if not ashamed, then more than a little embarrassed at the moment. Calling someone an asshole for raising a middle finger to a Super Bowl camera when you run a website and a music festival that has no problem promoting songs about rape, misogyny, and homophobia is empty and pathetic.

 Everett True

how ‘influence’ works – Lana Del Rey vs Eleni Vitali

how ‘influence’ works – Lana Del Rey vs Eleni Vitali

This is influence, not plagiarism: ridiculous to claim otherwise.

 Wallace Wylie

Wallace Wylie’s Best of 2011

Don’t pull your pants. Buy this album instead.

 Tamsin

Fuck Albums: Tamsin’s Best of 2011

This year, I’ve flitted from offering to offering like a bluebottle in a blocked toilet.

 Everett True

a Collapse Board parlour game for Sunday afternoons

Can’t quite appreciate her music like I used to after she threatened to beat me with a baseball bat for making fun of the Olympia Co-Op

 Scott Creney

Everything Is Plastic – The Corrupting Ideal of Authenticity In Music

ALL music is fake. That’s why they call it a performance; that’s why they call it an act.

 Everett True

two discussions around the notion of ‘authenticity’ in pop music

Authenticity, pah! It’s as bad as real music! No such thing.

 Brigette

The Question of Authenticity and Lana Del Rey

The Question of Authenticity and Lana Del Rey

This type of female voice, expressing these worries, these contradictions, simply does not exist anywhere else in popular music right now.