Ten misconceptions about Collapse Board and Savages
Ten misconceptions about Collapse Board and Savages. Number one: that we care if they’re manufactured.
A letter from a Nirvana fan
It is raining heavily in Utrecht, Netherlands, 1:55 AM, a dark and dreary night filled with feedback and grungy slippery guitar overtones wailing from my imagination into my eardrums. I’ve been listening to Leadbelly, Half Japanese and Nirvana. A few minutes ago I finished your 2005 book on that little band from Olympia or Aberdeen or wherever. A million miles away from me, in any case.
Book Review – The City is Ablaze! The Story of A Post Punk Popzine 1984 – 1994
It costs the same as 3 issues of Mojo, or 6 weeks’ worth of NME’s, and it’s a dozen times more likely to change your life.
20 Most Read Entries on Collapse Board | March 2013
There’s a whole hidden musical village here that you know nothing about.
Why I ended up enjoying a Justin Bieber show
We watched 1991: The Year Punk Broke on videotape. The boys asked me to sing, I never did. I preferred staying hidden behind my instrument with my short dresses.
20 Most Read Entries on Collapse Board | February 2013
The nastiness, the blackness and bleakness, is a lot of the attraction.
News exclusive | Brisbane supergroup to reform?
Perhaps The Go-Betweens are planning on reforming, with Everett filling the role of Grant McLennan?
Eleven records I wish I liked more
Liking most of these more wouldn’t half of made my life easier, at various stages. Would it have been too much of a compromise to make? Apparently so.
20 Most Read Entries on Collapse Board | January 2013
Maybe if I hadn’t been such a dull-jawed slack-witted alcoholic retard…
That In Utero memo | An outraged* reader responds
Freedom of speech, public debate, and to then be “stable” golf writers, copy, but as long as any 1 card reader complies with lively analog temerity to take a drive, and competent writing the column, and is a common disease, schizophrenia, I call the right locations. Damn green iguana.
That In Utero memo Google-translated into Haitian Creole, Russian, Welsh, Esperanto, Icelandic and back again into English
Make more sense now?
Deconstructing The Myth | 10 Reasons Why “Secret Memo Regarding Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ Reissue Leaked” Is Not For Real
To sum up. I think this memo is probably a spoof. A very cleverly worded and artful spoof for sure… but still a spoof.
Secret Memo Regarding Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ Reissue Leaked
People not only like to read the same story over and over again, they demand it. Our job is to retell the story, to reinforce the legends, to emphasise the inflexibility of the narrative.
Fictional Sanchez Threatened by Actual True! (reprinted from NY Post 1999)
“Do you know how I know if a record of mine’s going to be a hit?” asked the label head rhetorically. “If Everett True is throwing up in my bathroom at the Rhiga at 3 a.m. during CMJ, it’s going to be a hit.”
Apropos of nothing, here’s a list of 20+ protest songs
Week 2 of my lectures in Creative Performer 2 at QUT. Persuasion, propaganda, attempt to change the status quo. And that’s just my teaching style.
A gentle reminder to Courtney Love as she coarsely Tweets Lana Del Rey
You are all aware the song was originally called ‘Heart-Shaped Coffin’, right?
The Legend! live (with Shop Assistants, Galaxie 500, Nirvana, Calvin Johnson)
Thought I’d upload a couple of songs onto YouTube.
Everett True revisits Nevermind (reprint from eMusic)
Pull up a chair, there won’t be a warmer sound for years.
“I grew up in an alternate dimension where Nirvana didn’t exist”
To this day, I still have yet to see a flying penis at church, and I doubt I ever will.
The sacred cows of indie music – 6: Nirvana
In the Sex Pistols’ day, this was called flogging a dead horse.
