TRUE STORY! 22th February 2011 (translated from the Italian)
“DO YOU REMEMBER THAT BAND THAT MADE YOU DREAM ALL SUMMER LONG, THE BAND WHOSE SONGS YOU KNOW BY HEART ALL THE LYRICS? WELL, IT’S CRAP! AND SO ARE YOU!”
my favourite comment left on Collapse Board
(Shrugs.) I’ve got a bunch of marking to do, and I’m manfully trying to avoid it
notes for a lecture to QUT creative non-fiction students
Don’t let anyone ever browbeat you into thinking music criticism is dull, or reviewing a band is a chore. you think that? get the fuck out of writing about music.
Everett True’s advice for aspiring music critics (revised and expanded)
Don’t be fooled into thinking that just because folk are nice to you when you’re starting off, and flood your mailbox with free CDs and offers of free concert-tickets, they are your friends. They’re not.
Music Critics Are Scum (Uh Huh Uh Huh, I Like It, Uh Huh Uh Huh)
Fact is, there’s nothing I like more than someone who utterly and completely sucks – that’s why I got into music instead of politics.
Why Music Critics Suck
Don’t tell me how an album makes you “feel”, you jerkstore, just tell me how much it costs and I’ll figure out the rest.
The problem with ‘Girl Bands’
Isn’t it about time that we stop pointing out the fact that the band members of The Like and Warpaint all have vaginas?
that ‘new’ Radiohead video/a 10-point survival guide for online critics (redux)
This blog entry is intended to replace the previous two entries, that ‘new’ Radiohead video, reviewed in full AND a 10-point survival guide for music critics in web 2.0. This is the final edit, where I strip away most of the unnecessary verbiage. I’ve left the other two up online: not least because of the dozens of […]
a 10 point survival guide for music critics in web 2.0
You are a critic. Not a fan. Not a blogger. Not a hack. A critic.
