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Regurgitator Performs The Velvet Underground & Nico @ The Tivoli, Brisbane Festival, 20.09.2017

Regurgitator Performs The Velvet Underground & Nico @ The Tivoli, Brisbane Festival, 20.09.2017

As a body of music, The Velvet Underground and Nico remains a moment of beauty, rawness and twisted innovation. With 2017 being the album’s 50th anniversary, Regurgitator alongside the minds behind Brisbane Festival bring the celebration to the Tivoli. Despite claiming to have taken a slightly interpretative approach to the Velvets’ debut, the set plays […]

 Everett True

The return of Everett True | 164. Repulsive Woman

The return of Everett True | 164. Repulsive Woman

Ah, Dunedin. You have no real idea what lurks within Dunedin. For example: Repulsive Woman. I have long noted a strong link between a love for the music that lies at the unsettling heart of The Velvet Underground, and the music that unsettles at the heart of One Direction fandom. Many a happy hour have I […]

 Everett True

Has the stereotypical female gender role really disappeared? | Students on Gender

Has the stereotypical female gender role really disappeared? | Students on Gender

Beyoncé – If I Were A Boy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWpsOqh8q0M The first song I think about when it comes to gender. I know some may say it’s about sexism/feminism/equality, but when I first heard it, it made me feel a little less odd for sometimes wishing that I could be a boy, too, ‘even just for a […]

 Lee Adcock

Ty Segall – Manipulator (Spunk | Drag City)

Ty Segall – Manipulator (Spunk | Drag City)

A flock of youths gather around the artificial campfire and check their iPhones anxiously. “Oh, god, there he is!” a girl gasps, pointing upwards at the cliff over their heads. The audience swoons collectively as the guitar hero of the hour appears, hair streaming behind him, jangly Bowie chords descending like heavenly light from above… […]

 Everett True

Real Bad Mixed Bag – a live review

Real Bad Mixed Bag – a live review

First up, I got to see this guy perform live – and I seriously was not expecting that. There’s no blood but the intensity of the emotion reminds me of early Neubauten or Nina Simone or someone: he has a trunk full of effects and delay and distortion pedals, and he’s not scared to use […]

 Everett True

The return of Everett True | 26. Me And The Bees

The return of Everett True | 26. Me And The Bees

Dude recommends me eight female-led bands from Barcelona. You think I’m not going to check out a tip like that? You crazy, crazy kid. First out the blocks is Me And The Bees. The name must’ve got me, or something. (Damn. I passed over “All female band. They sound like Raincoats or Malaria singing traditional Spanish […]

 Scott Creney

Paul McCartney’s Child Labor Problem

Paul McCartney’s Child Labor Problem

There’s one song that stands out more than any other for its depiction of cruelty, for its story about the forced labor of children

 Everett True

Song of the day – 658: Charlie Boyer And The Voyeurs

Song of the day – 658: Charlie Boyer And The Voyeurs

Ain't we all looking for that "Whoa, cool" moment?

 Everett True

A tribute to Lou Reed, pt 2

A tribute to Lou Reed, pt 2

How in the world were they making that sound? Velvet Underground

 Everett True

A tribute to Lou Reed

A tribute to Lou Reed

How in the world were they making that sound? Velvet Underground

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