Fading Celluloid and Fading Memories – The Artistic Triumph of The Go-Betweens’ Before Hollywood
Its genius remains undimmed.
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.”
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?
Odd Future and sexism etc
Many men still feel that endless misogynistic ‘jokes’ are ultimately harmless and that everyone should just get a sense of humour.
Song of the day – 290: PJ Harvey (a mini-review)
Sure, I’m as intrigued as anyone. She polarises. Much of me wants to hate her, for the preciousness that surrounds her, the way she receives accolades usually reserved for male artists – why is it never the other way around? – for her treatment of music as art. Someone is putting her in for the […]
Review of Wolf-Wolf, Indiewolf, and Pearbear at TeenageHairWaste
Walking home from the gig I started to think about the solid future of indie rock as a genre and how interesting and different bands are.
Plan B Magazine #3
John Peel dying was a big deal for many of us, especially as it was so unexpected.
Song of the day – 213: La Mômo
Worthing’s answer to the delicate, frayed English pop of Robert Wyatt – only shaken up and down, given a good stomping and bashed about gleefully
The Fresh And Onlys – Play It Strange (In The Red)
Little things can make a big difference. Sometimes, it’s the difference between loving something and thinking it’s just OK. Or thinking it’s OK and hating it.
Is the method of the marginalised musician the future of the whole industry?
To qualify my wanker status I am currently working on a research masters at QUT. The exact nature of the project is still in flux, but having just been enrolled I spent the weekend at the library reading about “The Saints’, “The Triffids”, “The-Go Betweens” and “Nick Cave” circa “Bad Seeds”, “Birthday Party” and “The […]
